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Re: Fossil Fuel Subsidies - The Invisible Ones are Worse Than th
e Obvious Ones!
By: AGelbert Date: August 7, 2015, 10:51 pm
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The fossil fuel government has the fossil fuel (welfare queen)
industry's back!
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[quote]Did you know you could get billions of dollars from the
US government to be in the oil business? Or the coal industry?
Or fracking? In this satirical infomercial, famous American
government grant guru Matthew Lesko shows how you too can get
billions of dollars from the government to destroy the
environment!
• Seriously, fossil fuel companies are racking in billions from
subsidies. Learn more here.
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• This is part of our comedy series, Climate change: too hot to
handle
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Re: Fossil Fuel Subsidies - The Invisible Ones are Worse Than th
e Obvious Ones!
By: AGelbert Date: August 17, 2015, 6:12 pm
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Why Republicans Vote for Bernie
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Agelbert comment: Thom,
You left out one VERY IMPORTANT reason why most Americans will
support Senator Sanders for President:
Senator Sanders has submitted legislation to eliminate the
subsidies for Fossil Fuels and Nuclear Power. That corporate
welfare queen THEFT is a HUGE millstone around the neck of
America that AIDS the polluters and HINDERS the 100% Renewable
Energy transition that would provide jobs and a chance to
survive Climate Change.
[quote]
“At a time when scientists tell us we need to reduce carbon
pollution to prevent catastrophic climate change, it is absurd
to provide massive taxpayer subsidies that pad fossil-fuel
companies’ already enormous profits,” said senator Bernie
Sanders, who announced on 30 April he is running for president.
Sanders, with representative Keith Ellison, recently proposed an
End Polluter Welfare Act, which they say would cut $135bn of US
subsidies for fossil fuel companies over the next decade.
“Between 2010 and 2014, the oil, coal, gas, utility, and natural
resource extraction industries spent $1.8bn on lobbying, much of
it in defence of these giveaways,” according to Sanders and
Ellison.[/quote]
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Many conservatives are keenly aware of this. People get tired
of being ripped off by the fossil fuel government. They can add
and subtract.
For example, gasoline prices have not been cut anywhere near
what they should have been cut.
The amazing way a pipeline here, or a refinery shut down there
(accompanied by copious crocodile tears about wanting to provide
us a "service"), manages to keep gasoline prices "inelastic" (on
the way down, OF COURSE - they have a hair trigger on the way
up!) so they go up at a moment's notice despite that bla, bla
about all the "good, prudent, business" reasons they don't go
down is more mindfork as per Orwell speak and Machiavelli.
[quote]One must know how to color one’s actions and to be a
great liar and deceiver. – Niccolo Machiavelli [/quote]
[quote]"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be
ruled by evil men." - Plato[/quote]
Joe Mauk called BS on a recent crocodile tear piece by an oil
industry shill titled "Why don't gas prices fall?":
"At $80 a barrel being 42 gallons of gas at $1.60 a gallon, then
$49 dollars a barrel should be at about .95 to $1.30. The
figures for a barrel of oil to a gallon of gas is over a $1.50
more per gallon than it needs to be so, they are making profit,
what they report losses on is anyone's guess."
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Re: Fossil Fuel Subsidies - The Invisible Ones are Worse Than th
e Obvious Ones!
By: AGelbert Date: September 2, 2015, 9:15 pm
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[center]Tell Congress: Close Big Oil Tax Loopholes [/center]
58,141 signatures
58% Complete
100,000
In 2013, taxpayers spent BILLIONS in subsidies for big oil and
gas companies – the same year the Big Five oil companies brought
in $93 BILLION in profits. That’s $177,000 per minute! It’s
outrageous: Congress is pouring money into companies that are
already wildly profitable.
Some of these tax loopholes have been on the books for 100
years! Over the years, oil loopholes have amounted to a gift of
hundreds of billions of dollars from taxpayers to one of the
most profitable industries in the world. With taxpayer subsidies
like that, it's no wonder the Big Five oil companies were able
to pay their
CEOs $125 million last year alone.
It’s time to stop giving unfair tax giveaways to Big Oil. Add
your name to tell Congress to close Big Oil tax loopholes! [img
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Sen. Al Franken
Sen. Patrick Leahy
Sen. Ed Markey
Sen. Bob Menendez
Sen. Patty Murray
Sen. Bill Nelson
Sen. Jack Reed
Sen. Chuck Schumer
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
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Re: Fossil Fuel Subsidies - The Invisible Ones are Worse Than th
e Obvious Ones!
By: AGelbert Date: September 22, 2015, 8:55 pm
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The 800 Ways Taxpayer Money Supports Fossil Fuel Industries
If the world seeks to lower carbon emissions, why is support for
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September 21, 2015
By Reed Landberg, Bloomberg
As world leaders converge on New York for a United Nations
gathering that’s expected to have a strong emphasis on climate
change, the OECD is pointing out 800 ways rich industrial
nations support fossil fuels with taxpayer money, along with a
handful of countries that are catching up quickly.
The measures were worth $167 billion last year for the oil,
natural gas and coal industries
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according to the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a
Paris-based institution that advises 34 industrial nations.
While that number has fallen from almost $200 billion in 2012,
it easily exceeds the value of subsidies for renewables such as
wind and solar.
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The findings released Monday are designed to stimulate debate on
what constitutes fair support for energy technologies. World
leaders including U.S. President Barack Obama and his Chinese
counterpart Xi Jinping are attempting to ratchet up ambitions
for a global deal reducing greenhouse gas pollution. The
UN-organized negotiations are expected to yield an international
agreement in Paris in December. The OECD report suggests policy
makers burrow into their own tax and spending measures for a
solution.
“We’re totally schizophrenic,” Angel Gurria, the OECD’s
secretary-general, said at a press conference in Paris on
Monday. “We’re trying to reduce emissions, and we subsidize the
consumption of fossil fuels. These policies are not obsolete,
they’re dangerous legacies of a bygone era when pollution was
viewed as a tolerable side effect of economic growth. They
should be erased from the books.”
The report covered OECD member nations plus six developing
economies outside the group -- Brazil, China, India, Indonesia,
Russia and South Africa. It expands on a 2013 assessment and on
the work of the International Energy Agency, which put the cost
of fossil fuel subsidies at $548 billion in 2013, down 25
percent from the year before.
[center]Biggest Subsidizers[/center]
The IEA report includes countries from the Middle East and
Africa such as Qatar, Iran and Nigeria that top other rankings
of big subsidizers. It looked at how consumer prices vary from
market prices, while the OECD looked specifically at measures in
national budgets that support fossil fuels.
“If other developing countries were included, then the total
would be much higher,” said Angus McCrone, senior analyst at
Bloomberg New Energy Finance in London. “The reassuring point
from the OECD report is that although it found attempts to
reduce fossil-fuel subsidies running into inertia, it also
concluded that support is now on a downward trend.”
Renewable energy subsidies rose 15 percent to $121 billion in
2013 and may rise to $230 billion by 2030, according to an IEA
report released last year. [img width=25
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The measures counted by the OECD covered some of the most
obscure pieces of national tax codes -- including direct
controls on gasoline prices, depreciation allowances for oil
drillers, breaks for refiners, credits for infrastructure like
pipelines and stimulus for technology to clean up coal
emissions.
[center]‘People Are Outraged’ [img width=120
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“People are outraged when they find out that their tax dollars
are being used to prop up the richest industry on the planet,”
said Jamie Henn, strategy director at 350.org, the campaign
group founded by environmentalist Bill McKibben to urge
investors to divest from high-polluting industries.
[quote] “Funding fossil fuels is like buying up typewriters at
the dawn of the computer age.”
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Oil and oil products reaped 82 percent of the support, according
to the OECD, with coal collecting 8 percent and gas 10 percent.
A plunge in crude oil prices reduced some of the cost of
subsidies.
More important were measures taken in India, China, Mexico and
Indonesia, as well as most industrial nations, to reduce
handouts to forms of energy that produce significant amounts of
pollution. India saved 200 billion rupees ($3 billion) from 2012
to 2014 by slashing subsidies for diesel. Indonesia reduced
consumer aid for electricity and motor fuels that ate up a fifth
of its spending as recently as 2011. In the U.S., Obama has
proposed $4 billion a year of savings from reduced fossil-fuel
support.
“We’re certainly not saying that all the measures are bad,”
since some are targeted to help poor people afford fuel they
need, Jehan Sauvage, the lead author of the OECD report, said in
an interview. “The key message is to ask if this is the best use
of public money. Are these measures the best way to support the
goals we have?”
©2015 Bloomberg News
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Re: Fossil Fuel Subsidies - The Invisible Ones are Worse Than th
e Obvious Ones!
By: AGelbert Date: January 13, 2016, 6:15 pm
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President Obama said, [quote]“Rather than subsidize the past, we
should invest in the future — especially in
communities that rely on fossil fuels. That’s why I’m going to
push to change the way we manage our oil and coal resources, so
that they better reflect the costs they impose on taxpayers and
our planet.”[/quote]
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Jan 13, 2016 [font=times new roman]Sara Shor - 350.org: [/font]
[quote][font=times new roman]Since 1920, the government has been
selling coal, oil, and gas on federal land to the highest
bidder. President Obama has rightly identified that this is an
antiquated system due for an overhaul. But these federal fossil
fuel auctions don’t just require minor adjustments -- each and
every one of them needs to be cancelled. (Last year, local
activists mobilized around six government fossil fuel auctions,
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Half the fossil fuels under U.S. soil are on these public lands.
That includes coal in Montana, offshore oil in Virginia, and
fracked gas in Colorado. If he wanted to, President Obama could
say “let’s keep it all in the ground” tomorrow, and we could
keep 450 gigatons of carbon out of our atmosphere (without
interference from climate deniers in Congress).
Fossil fuel companies already have five times more oil, gas, and
coal than they can burn. We can’t afford to sell them any more.
We have to just start saying no.
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[center][size=12pt]Click here [img
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/>to tell the President to get our government out of the fossil
fuel business once and for all.
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Re: Fossil Fuel Subsidies - The Invisible Ones are Worse Than th
e Obvious Ones!
By: AGelbert Date: February 19, 2016, 5:27 pm
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[center]Koch Brothers Plotting Multimillion Dollar War on
Electric Vehicles
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Lorraine Chow | February 19, 2016 2:45 pm
SNIPPETS:
Death to the electric car?
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/>Charles and David Koch are reportedly backing a new group that
will use millions to promote petroleum and fight against
government subsidies for electric vehicles.
In an effort to strike back at record-breaking EV sales, the
fossil fuel industry is allegedly funding a new organization
that will spend $10 million a year to push petroleum-based
transportation fuels and attack government subsidies on EVs,
refining industry sources told the Huffington Post.
Elon Musk
✔ ‎‎@elonmusk
Worth noting that all gasoline cars are heavily subsidized via
oil company tax credits & unpaid public health costs.
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Comment by renewableguy
Fossil fuels is scared sh--less.
Agelbert reply:
Yep.
Amory Lovins knows the score. The fossil fuel industry is a
wounded beast. It's days are numbered.
QUOTE
Over the past 40 years, Americans have saved 31 times as much
energy as renewables added. Those cumulative savings are
equivalent to 21 years’ current energy use. They’re simply
invisible: you can’t see the energy you don’t use. But globally,
it’s a bigger “supply” than oil, and inexorably, it’s going to
get much, much bigger.
Oil companies worry about climate regulation, but they’re even
more at risk from market competition. The oil that’ll be
unburnable for climate reasons is probably less than the oil
that’ll be unsellable because efficiency and renewables can do
the same job [i]cheaper.[/I]
An oil business that sputters when oil’s at $90 a barrel, swoons
at $50, and dies at $30 will not do well against the $25 cost of
getting U.S. mobility—or anyone else’s, since the technologies
are fungible—completely off oil by 2050. That cost, like the $18
per saved barrel to make U.S. automobiles uncompromised,
attractive, cost-effective, and oil-free, is a 2010–11 analytic
result; today’s costs are even lower and continue to fall.
In short, like whale oil in the 1850s, oil is becoming
uncompetitive even at low prices [I]before[/I] it became
unavailable even at high prices.
UNQUOTE
As Oil Prices Gyrate, Underlying Trends Are Shifting To Oil's
Disadvantage
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Re: Fossil Fuel Subsidies - The Invisible Ones are Worse Than th
e Obvious Ones!
By: AGelbert Date: February 19, 2016, 5:34 pm
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[move][font=times new roman]Fossil fuels subsidised by $10m a
minute, says IMF [/font][/move]
‘Shocking’ revelation finds $5.3tn subsidy estimate for 2015 is
greater than the total health spending of all the world’s
governments >:(
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Re: Fossil Fuel Subsidies - The Invisible Ones are Worse Than th
e Obvious Ones!
By: AGelbert Date: May 4, 2016, 2:08 pm
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Agelbert NOTE: If the Saudis can eliminate the oil subsidy SWAG,
there is NO REASON we can't do the same in the United States.
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/>Saudi prince makes[b] bold challenges to kingdom's old ways
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Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman got a standing
ovation when he visited a gathering of Saudi youth last month.
Posted 04 May 2016 23:00 Updated 04 May 2016 23:30
SNIPPET 1:
Last week, Prince Mohammed officially unveiled Saudi Vision
2030, his blueprint to move the economy decisively from that he
called its “addiction to oil” towards the private sector. [img
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SNIPPET 2:
The phased removal of subsidies on fuel
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water and electricity -
part of the welfare lavished on Saudis, of whom about four out
of five workers hold public sector jobs - is already underway.
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SNIPPET 3:
Abdulaziz al-Sager, head of the Jeddah and Geneva-based Gulf
Research Centre, says there is a growing recognition among Saudi
leaders that the oil-based economic system is not sustainable.
[color=green]That will necessarily lead to social and political
change.
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[move]We-the-people CANNOT AFFORD to continue to baby the fossil
fuel industry WELFARE QUEENS in the U.S.!
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Re: Fossil Fuel Subsidies - The Invisible Ones are Worse Than th
e Obvious Ones!
By: AGelbert Date: May 5, 2016, 5:17 pm
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[center]Elon Musk: We Must Revolt Against the Unrelenting
Propaganda of the Fossil Fuel Industry[/center]
Lorraine Chow | May 5, 2016 11:18 am
During an interview at the World Energy Innovation Forum (WEIF)
at Tesla’s Fremont, California factory Wednesday, Elon Musk
criticized fossil fuel subsidies as well the alleged
“propaganda” tactics deployed by Big Oil and Gas to tarnish his
companies, including Tesla, SolarCity and SpaceX.
[quote]“The fundamental issue with fossil fuels is … every use
of fossil fuels comes with a subsidy
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/>,” Musk said in his talk with forum organizer and DBL Partners
venture capitalist Ira Ehrenpreis.[/quote]
According to the Tesla CEO, cheap oil and gasoline prices not
only prevent drivers from switching their gas-guzzlers to
electric cars, it also deters the fight against climate change.
Musk explained that the well-funded fossil fuel industry isn’t
even paying for their contribution to environmental destruction.
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[quote]“It would be like if you could just dump garbage in the
street and not pay for garbage pickup,” he said.[/quote]
Citing data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Musk
lamented he’s “competing against something that has a $6
trillion per year subsidy,” and that the low gas prices that
subsidies create are “weakening the economic-forcing function to
sustainable transport and clean energy in general.”
Musk suggested that a carbon tax would help curb Dirty Energy’s
emissions but passage of such a policy would be “hugely
politically difficult” and that politicians usually pick the
easier path of providing subsidies for electric cars, “even
though gas cars are getting a bigger subsidy.”
Although the electric vehicle maker said he was “encouraged by
the Paris talks,” he still thinks that the transition to clean
energy and sustainable transportation isn’t happening quickly
enough.
Musk gave an example of how the fossil fuel industry has been
feeding negative stories to the press about his many companies.
As Electrek explained:
The CEO implied that the LA Times article from last year that
misleadingly asserted that Musk’s companies received $4.9
billion in subsidies originated from the fossil fuel industry.
Musk suggested that the report was planted to counter the IMF
study that found that the fossil fuel industry was receiving the
equivalent of ~$5 trillion in subsidy a year. Both reports came
out around the same time.
“After the IMF came out with their study showing that fossil
fuels are subsidized to the tune of $6 trillion a year [it’s was
actually $5.3 trillion in 2015]–like $6 trillion per year,” Musk
said. “Then some representatives from the oil and gas industry
added up all the incentives that Tesla had received and will
receive in the future, which happens to coincide with the $6
billion figure.” [img
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“We need to appeal to the people–educate people to sort of
revolt against this and to fight the propaganda of the fossil
fuel industry which is unrelenting and enormous,” he concluded.
Earlier in his talk, Musk also predicted that autonomous cars
are the future of transportation.
“It’s going to become common for cars to be autonomous a lot
faster than people think,” Musk said, adding that half of all
new cars will have self-driving technology within seven to 10
years.
“It’ll just be something where it’s odd if it’s not in your car.
Like not having GPS or something like that, but even bigger.
It’ll just be normal,” he said.
The entire interview was captured by Electrek in the video
below. Musk’s discussion about the fossil fuel industry starts
around the 18:30 mark.
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Re: Fossil Fuel Subsidies - The Invisible Ones are Worse Than th
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By: AGelbert Date: July 28, 2016, 5:05 pm
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Agelbert NOTE: The following is a copy of one of 5 letters sent
today to the candidates for governor of Vermont.
Each letter differs only by the name of the recipient.
The candidates for governor of Vermont are: Peter Galbraith,
Bruce Lisman, Sue Minter, Matt Dunne and Lt. Gov. Phil Scott.
[quote][font=georgia]Jul 28, 2016
Peter Galbraith
To Galbraith,
I agree with Ashley Orgain, as you should as well.
"We can't have a healthy business on a sick planet."-- Ashley
Orgain, manager of mission advocacy and outreach for Seventh
Generation, Burlington, Vermont
I am retired and live in a manufactured home. I have a low
income but
have never collected ANY kind of welfare, home heating
assistance or
food stamps, although I respect Vermonters who require those
worthy
services to help them get back on their feet.
But there is a service this state is providing the polluters
that is
not worthy or justified by any stretch of the imagination. That
is the
direct and indirect subsidy that Vermont provides for fossil
fuels and
those who profit from selling them.
Subsidizing fossil fuels and "externalizing" the pollution on
to we-the-people is NOT a worthy service because of the
directly
related health care costs to the state, including, but not
limited to,
reduced longevity, absence from work due to illness and fossil
fuel use
related occupational hazards.
I support a carbon pollution tax paired with tax cuts and
investment in
clean energy and efficiency.
As a candidate for governor - I hope you understand that the
vast
majority of Vermonters believe global warming is real,
primarily caused
by humans and that we want to be part of the solution.
We also want leaders willing to pursue policies that will
protect our
environment and strengthen our economy.
We can do just that -- by lowering taxes on income, employment
and
sales, investing in clean energy and efficiency and paying for
it with
a gradually rising tax on carbon pollution.
This is an environmental and economic winner for our state.
Continued
subsidies and babying of fossil fuel providers is a LOSER for
our state.
If I am willing to pay a tax on carbon AND support the
elimination of
ALL subsidies for polluting fuel producers, there is no reason,
besides
unjustified profit over people and planet, that you should not
do the
same.
Sincerely,
Anthony G. Gelbert
(home address and e-mail address included)
Colchester, VT 05446[/font] [/quote]
Yes, I know this letter to five candidates for Governor of
Vermont is probably another one of my quixotic efforts. :(
Howevah, ya never know when common sense might prevail over
bought and paid for stupidity.
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The story of my life: Outnumbered, always; outgunned, usually;
outclassed, never.
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