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To: Wissa

I repeat, there are no subsidies for the oil and gas business.

Is every zombie as stupid as this lady? Serious question.


59 posted on 01/22/2016 8:33:38 PM PST by one Lord one faith one baptism
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To: one Lord one faith one baptism

Can you call oil depletion allowance a subsidy?


63 posted on 01/22/2016 8:37:17 PM PST by gusopol3
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To: one Lord one faith one baptism
I repeat, there are no subsidies for the oil and gas business.

A tax break IS a subsidy.

65 posted on 01/22/2016 8:37:37 PM PST by Wissa (Gone Galt)
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To: one Lord one faith one baptism; Wissa

“On March 13, 2013, Terry M. Dinan, senior advisor at the Congressional Budget Office, testified before the Subcommittee on Energy of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology in the U.S. House of Representatives that federal energy tax subsidies would cost $16.4 billion that fiscal year, broken down as follows:

Renewable energy: $7.3 billion (45 percent)
Energy efficiency: $4.8 billion (29 percent)
Fossil fuels: $3.2 billion (20 percent)
Nuclear energy: $1.1 billion (7 percent)
In addition, Dinan testified that the U.S. Department of Energy would spend an additional $3.4 billion on financial Support for energy technologies and energy efficiency, broken down as follows:

Energy efficiency and renewable energy: $1.7 billion (51 percent)
Nuclear energy: $0.7 billion (22 percent)
Fossil energy research & development: $0.5 billion (15 percent)
Advanced Research Projects Agency—Energy: $0.3 billion (8 percent)
Electricity delivery and energy reliability: $0.1 billion (4 percent)[28]”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies#United_States


99 posted on 01/22/2016 10:13:11 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: one Lord one faith one baptism

We pay $37.5 BILLION A YEAR in oil subsidies.

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

Google is your friend.


110 posted on 01/22/2016 11:01:19 PM PST by Marie (TRUMP TRUTH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw8c2Cq-vpg)
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To: one Lord one faith one baptism
I repeat, there are no subsidies for the oil and gas business.
I repeat, there are no subsidies for the oil and gas business.
I repeat, there are no subsidies for the oil and gas business.

Yes there are, they are just not called subsidies.

Yes there are, they are just not called subsidies.

Yes there are, they are just not called subsidies.

Churches have subsidies too. Especially the ones that have large businesses.

112 posted on 01/22/2016 11:16:18 PM PST by itsahoot (Trump is a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't speak in complete sentences. Wonder why is he winning?)
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