We spend more public dollars subsidizing fossil fuels than we spend globally on healthcare. That can't be the right way to do things.
Originally shared by Leilani Münter
In 2015, fossil fuels will receive $10 million every minute in taxpayer subsidies. If that doesn't piss you off, I don't know what will. http://bit.ly/1Fs2i0x
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When we let politics trump science, people are needlessly put in harm's way. http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/self-censoring-fears...
Why does that matter ? Jack ass just put a shit load of coal miners out of business . Guess thats good thing huh ? Wind mills are so beutiful ? Go out accross a beautiful deslent country side oh yes theres hundreds wind mills everywhere ! Theres enough of them why aren't we depending on them yet I wonder ? Hell been around over ten years .
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ReplyDeleteI dont know who he is but you're gonna be hooked fossil fuel many more years to come ! Why do wanna spend my hard earned money on health care ?
ReplyDeleteIs the government feeding or taking care of you ? Drill baby drill !
ReplyDeleteI just understand your think dude ? Part of being an adult is taking care and be being responsible for yourself .
ReplyDeleteTony Lawrence I hope he never has to rely on Medicare.
ReplyDeleteYou art a try the oil field job sometime , its a lot a rowdy fun .
ReplyDeleteAre you drunk?
ReplyDeleteCraig Froehle thats why I work . I dont take job unless it has health insurance . Medicare is whole different thing than the bullshit your pushing . Of couse that'll be trashed by the time I need I'm sure !
ReplyDeleteCraig Froehle are suppost to be smart ?
ReplyDeleteGlobal warming to im reading also im starting get a good chuckle out this ! Government going to fix all this right ? I mean really ?
ReplyDeleteTony Lawrence actually I keep in my circle and dont know how because I dont add people . But because I dont believe like you im stupid or better yet im somehow brain washed ? And you want regulations and probes up your ass telling you everything to do ? People making a living in fossil fuel offends you all that tells me you all are part the problem .
ReplyDeleteBetrayed by words..
ReplyDeleteGovernment fixes nothing ! Ask the people in the hood or go talk to residents in Detroit . Laws dosent fix anything. Go out and live and figure it out !
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ReplyDeleteBlock if you dont like me . Im not conservative but government is not going to be a part of my life . Being fifty years old seeing what happen to the trucking industry tells government can stay out of my life ! I speak from the heart not some stupid agenda !
ReplyDeleteIRONY: Someone using the Internet, which was developed and is managed through government programs, to declare that the government isn't going to be part of his life. #priceless
ReplyDeletefrom the article, "The vast sum is largely due to polluters not paying the costs imposed on governments by the burning of coal, oil and gas. These include the harm caused to local populations by air pollution as well as to people across the globe affected by the floods, droughts and storms being driven by climate change"
ReplyDeletewhile i personally agree with the general message here (we should not be subsidizing the oil industry), I think it's a bit disingenuous to use such abstract calculations for the oil subsidies then compare them to the actual cash calculations for health care.
using a similar financial manipulation I'd wager that the true cost of health care is VERY LOW. many arguments in favor of the ACA suggest that for some part of the expense/return curve we actually SAVE money by spending more...
I'd love to see inverted subsidies on fuel. A fuel tax that drives the price high enough that we consumers would find it cost prohibitive to drive gas guzzlers. An oil tax to drive farmers to use non-oil-based products on their farm land.
Eli Fennell been there done that . Thanks for the pay cut when accidents havent down , it harder to maintain a license now . There more dangerous enexperianced drivers now which more dangerous because guys like me wont work with cut in pay so they'll hire anybody so its not safer ! The harder performers cant get better runs because everybody on electronic logs . Yeah a reeeal improvment man ! What I know ive only done it for 27 years .
ReplyDeleteIm union ashamed enough of it ! Why im against TPP , I dont likes def engines is why agaisnt environmentalist . Gutless noisy peace of junk !
ReplyDeleteGovernment does fix nothing , government does not make things better ! Laws dont fix things , laws dont make things better ! Socialism never has worked and never will !
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ReplyDeleteRich folks love their Medicare. Wait till you go to Assisted Living, a much better place than nursing homes. You better have money, cause it's for the rich obviously.
ReplyDeletePut the wealthy on social security, then we'd have money for all to live a good quality life during their senior years.
ReplyDeleteElizabeth Unser context much?
ReplyDeleteI learned this from a Conservative Republican! Bah!
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, Jared!
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