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If we give them free money, won't they become lazy and dependent?

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Biden has destroyed all the oil jobs in just three weeks!!!!

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His people? That is some fantasy shit right there.

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Crab legs for everyone!

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Yeah, sure moving away from fossil fuels will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but just wait until we all have windmill cancer.

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I tried to do a study a couple of years ago on federal, state and local subsidies. It's hard to do because so much of it is opaque and obscured.

What I came up with was around $1.8 TRILLION annually from various governments but I would be comfortable saying it's probably double that.

When you had the trillions in tax breaks they got under Trump and previous Republican administrations corporate welfare is very much alive and well.

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Insurance companies are also pulling away from Oil and gashttps://twitter.com/Charles...

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It's not that far.

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There was one 'if it bleeds it leads' headline on cooling, the same magazine published another on global warming.

The scientific view was that global dimming from pollution could cause cooling in the short term, but that in the long term the increase in CO2 would overwhelm that effect.

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What did those poor crabs ever do to you, except make you itch down there?

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Read "Blow-out" by Rachael Maddow, if you have not already. She covers many points.

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I don't know that people are too stuck on oil. Oil industry execs and the congresscritters they've bought are stuck on oil. And all the money it brings them, short-term.

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Yes. Yes to all of it. Ta, Dok.

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'Pubs panicking?

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Four out of six for projection.

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Head too small.

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