The G. D. exorbitant TAX is the real subsidy; a subsidy for the bloated, self-important government blokes (or should that be “brokes”, since their speciality is driving working people broke) which WILL find a way to spend the extorted PROFIT from their one-armed bandit, the petrol pump.

Maybe if some of that money were used to purchase and present a pitchfork and torch to each baby peasant when it’s born, as a future means to keeping your government in line, it would be justified.