Crosscheck wrote:
I just wanted to pop back in here and point out some of the assumptions and assertions made previously in this thread were completely wrong.
Specifically over the amount of tax subsidies provided to "Big Oil" and to the "green" companies.
According to the CBO, in 2011:
Big Oil and Big Coal received
$3.4 billion in tax subsidies.
Big Green received
$24 billion in tax subsidies. (Also, between 2009 and 2012, the DOE provided $25 billion in loans to green companies)
http://www.cbo.gov/publication/43040http://www.redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2012 ... to-greens/I couldn't find numbers form 2111 when I looked before. Interesting to see just how much the trend appears to be changing from the CBO numbers. I would point out that $24 billion did NOT go to Green from those numbers. That's the TOTAL for ALL energy subsides, of which granted renewable got the Lion's share. But not $24 billion, that was for fossil, renewable, and nuclear combined.
I may be ignorant for doing so, but I group nuclear with renewable...it's a lot less caustic than fossil.