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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts) Mon Jun 8, 2015, 01:51 PM Jun 2015

This ain't right!

Feel The Bern!

Sanders2016!!!

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This ain't right! (Original Post) Playinghardball Jun 2015 OP

It would seem unreal but it's too damn true.... /nt think Jun 2015 #1

AND...we are subsidizing them to do it! n2doc Jun 2015 #2

think

(11,641 posts)

1. It would seem unreal but it's too damn true.... /nt

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Mon Jun 8, 2015, 01:54 PM

Jun 2015

n2doc

(47,953 posts)

2. AND...we are subsidizing them to do it!

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Mon Jun 8, 2015, 02:15 PM

Jun 2015

In the United States, credible estimates of annual fossil fuel subsidies range from $10 billion to $52 billion annually yet these don’t even include costs borne by taxpayers related to the climate, local environmental, and health impacts of the fossil fuel industry. As of July 2014, Oil Change International estimates U.S. fossil fuel subsidies at $37.5 billion annually, including $21 billion in production and exploration subsidies.

http://priceofoil.org/fossil-fuel-subsidies/

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