I repeat, there are no subsidies for the oil and gas business.
Is every zombie as stupid as this lady? Serious question.
Can you call oil depletion allowance a subsidy?
A tax break IS a subsidy.
“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 AgencyâEnergy: $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
We pay $37.5 BILLION A YEAR in oil subsidies.
http://priceofoil.org/fossil-fuel-subsidies/
Google is your friend.
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.