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Old 05-01-2016, 08:00 AM
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Originally Posted by rugatika View Post
Bingo. If you want to talk about subsidies to the oil companies, they don't get it for producing oil, but they sure do for CCS. Billions of taxpayer dollars being paid to Shell, etc to pump CO2 into the ground. What a joke! Scrubbing plant food out of the atmosphere that could be providing a better life for people AND scrubbing billions of taxpayer dollars out of general revenue that could be going to healthcare, paying down the debt, etc.

To it's credit, I believe the NDP are getting rid of these subsidies the last I heard.
Too bad the money will be redirected into something equally as stupid, like windmills.
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