Editing Energy policy (section)

=== Relationship to other government policies ===
{{Further|climate change policy|environmental policy}}
Energy policy sometimes dominates and sometimes is dominated by other government policies. For example energy policy may dominate, supplying free coal to poor families and schools thus supporting [[social policy]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-05-31 |title=WB-6 countries struggling to secure electricity production in their old coal power plants |url=https://balkangreenenergynews.com/wb-6-countries-struggling-to-secure-electricity-production-in-their-old-coal-power-plants/ |access-date=2022-06-04 |website=Balkan Green Energy News |language=en-US}}</ref> but thus causing [[air pollution]] and so impeding [[Health policy|heath policy]] and [[environmental policy]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Health and climate change: country profile 2022: Turkey - Turkey {{!}} ReliefWeb |url=https://reliefweb.int/report/turkey/health-and-climate-change-country-profile-2022-turkey |access-date=2022-06-04 |website=reliefweb.int |language=en}}</ref>{{Rp|page=13}} On the other hand energy policy may be dominated by [[defense policy]], for example some counties started building expensive nuclear power plants to supply material for bombs.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The links between nuclear power and nuclear weapons - |url=https://cnduk.org/resources/links-nuclear-power-nuclear-weapons/ |access-date=2022-06-04 |language=en-GB}}</ref> Or defense policy may be dominated for a while, eventually resulting in [[Stranded asset|stranded assets]], such as [[Nord Stream 2]].

Energy policy is closely related to [[climate change policy]] because totalled worldwide the energy sector [[Greenhouse gas emissions|emits more greenhouse gas]] than other sectors.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Climate change – Topics |url=https://www.iea.org/topics/climate-change |access-date=2022-06-04 |website=IEA |language=en-GB}}</ref>

Energy policy decisions are sometimes not taken democratically.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kasturi |first=Charu Sudan |title=Kazakhstan unrest highlights tricky terrain of fuel subsidy cuts |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/1/13/kazahstan-unrest-highlights-tricky-terrain-of-fuel-subsidy-cuts |access-date=2022-01-15 |website=www.aljazeera.com |language=en}}</ref>