The “End Polluter Welfare Act”
If you were tasked with crafting the worst possible energy policy, what would you do? Well, you’d say, “OK, I’m going to reward bad behavior, and penalize good behavior,” right? Then you’d send enormous sums of tax-payers’ money to the most egregious polluters you could find, while making sure that any potential competitors were ground into the pavement.
That’s exactly what we do here in the United States. We subsidize the oil and coal companies, and we make it tough for alternative energy sources by scaring off investors with our constantly changing swings from one piece of politically motivated grandstanding after another. Honestly, you could not write a more destructive energy policy if you were paid to do so.
But this sad chapter in American history may be coming to a close.
We’ve updated the “Advocate!” page to focus on the “End Polluter Welfare Act” — a bill in Congress that deserves your support. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) have introduced legislation that would end these subsidies, eliminating tax breaks, financial assistance, royalty relief, direct federal research and development and many loopholes that benefit the fossil fuel industry.
The bill has the backing of numerous groups, including Friends of the Earth, Taxpayers for Common Sense and 350.org, which has vowed to campaign on Capitol Hill in support of the legislation. We hope you’ll support it as well, and write your elected leaders urging them to pass the measure.
Here’s the link to the Advocacy page: http://2greenenergy.com/express-yourself/
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Glad you approve, Cameron. You have a wonderful economy with words today. 🙂
Doesn’t public disclosure require our elected lagislative leaders make public their financing? I want to know who owns oil and gas or coal company stock.
In the interum vote against all incumbants and put fresh younger faces in Congress and on capitol hill.
Remember in a revolution the first cry of the revolutionaries is “Kill the Lawyers!” But I would amend that to “Imprison the politicions!” as these are more enlightened times.
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I hear every day that we are giving billions of dollars to the gas and oil industry and wondered just what those dollars were subsidizing. So far as I could find the government gives the oil industry a well depletion tax break as an oil well starts to lose production. The other subsidy is a dollar pass thru for bio fuels. Are there more handouts I can’t find?
Garth: They are discussed in this post: http://2greenenergy.com/subsidies-for-oil/12057/.
More… Concerning the dollar per gallon pass thru it appears that that money stops at the blender before being distributed for retail sales where the pump price is a dollar per gallon less than it should be. Help me out here, where are the billions in subsidy other than the wars fought over oil? I understand the wind and other renewable tax breaks with PTC and ITC but I’m missing something on coal and oil.