Right. One example of that is the $750 million that was just given, the methane emissions reduction fund. We are seeing more and more subsidies, especially during COVID, trying to achieve environmental outcomes. The question then becomes, could these be achieved by other means?
Eliminating methane leaks is actually incredibly cheap. It's one of the cheapest ways that companies can reduce their emissions. Those exact same outcomes could have been easily achieved through regulations. Therefore, is that the best use of $750 million? Could some of that instead have gone to independent monitoring, because we know that industry is consistently under-reporting emissions?
Those are the kinds of questions that we should be asking, and when we form that road map we should really be planning out what subsidies have to go first. Those are the ones that go towards expansion and continued production, and then when we get there, talk about the other subsidies, because every time we give billions to the oil and gas sector, that is money that we can't direct towards other outcomes and certainly towards just transition outcomes.