re: #150 reine.de.tout

I’m really not understanding, this, Reine. I’m not just talking about a ‘lower tax rate’. I’m talking about many other subsidies, from guaranteed loans, to federal insurance programs, to the federal government shouldering the cost for a lot of the environmental damage from the oil companies.

I’m not saying anything in the least bit controversial. We’ve subsidized the energy industry. I am not making the claim that we’ve subsidized them to a greater degree than we’ve collected taxes from them— though the true economic cost of burning coal and oil is, with AGW unchecked, an unknown, that’s not really an original fault of the oil or gas companies. It’s the whole society’s regard.

I’m not sure what it is I’m saying you actually have a problem with.