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Environment & Energy

Finishline42

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3. Does their study count only subsidies specific to oil and gas?

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Wed Sep 10, 2025, 09:25 AM

Sep 10

vs write offs that every company gets - depreciation, cost of doing business, etc?

I don't think they should get anything specific to oil and gas.

They already fudge the resource depletion numbers.

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Study: US Government Subsidizes Oil & Gas Industry To The Tune Of $31 Billion/Year; Total More Than Doubled Since 2017 [View all] hatrack Sep 10 OP

We pay corporate America to screw us. Irish_Dem Sep 10 #1

We have the very best government that money can buy. multigraincracker Sep 10 #2

Does their study count only subsidies specific to oil and gas? Finishline42 Sep 10 #3

The Robert Reich thread talks about these deductions in detail Finishline42 Sep 10 #4

Are we not governed and controlled by the Hey Joe Sep 10 #5