Yeah so, nobody said they don't pay taxes in the industry, but only you said the fossil fuel industry doesn't get ANY subsidies. I guess you know more than the industry experts at the Wall Street Journal!!That's an odd question to ask about the source you introduced
US Revenues from Fossil Fuels, Responsible for $138 Billion Annually, Expected to Fall Regardless of Climate Action (rff.org)
in Canada
Opinion: Oil and gas taxes pay for a lot of social benefits | Financial Post
there is rhetoric and then there is fact
Moving the goal posts is a classic response when right wingers are caught out.Yeah so, nobody said they don't pay taxes in the industry, but only you said the fossil fuel industry doesn't get ANY subsidies. I guess you know more than the industry experts at the Wall Street Journal!!
Oil and Gas Subsidies Are Under Pressure
Oil and gas investors need to stop fretting about subsidies for green energy and start worrying about hanging on to the prodigious ones their own industry receives.www.wsj.com
Yeah so, nobody said they don't pay taxes in the industry, but only you said the fossil fuel industry doesn't get ANY subsidies. I guess you know more than the industry experts at the Wall Street Journal!!
larue has me on ignore because he thinks it means I won't embarrass him publicly if he can't see it.name the subsidy programs
simply because these subsidies do not exist
LNG Canada investment | Canada | LNG Canada | $275 million |
Direct spending & budgetary transfers** | Canada | Oil and gas companies | $318 million |
Crown royalty reductions | Alberta | Oil and gas companies | $1.136 billion |
Tax exemptions for certain fuels & uses in industry | Alberta | Industry | $287 million |
Royalty reductions, including deep drilling and infrastructure credits† | British Columbia | Oil and gas companies | $631 million |
Reduced tax for aviation fuel†† | Ontario | Aviation Industry | $273.5 million |
Tax exemption for coloured fuels used in agriculture | Ontario | Agricultural industry | $275 million |
Fuel tax exemptions and reductions | Quebec | Industry and other consumers | $303.5 million |
your own article says they don’t know;Unpacking Canada’s Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Fossil fuel subsidies hold us back and incentivize pollution. How much do Canada's governments subsidize fossil fuels, and why does it matter?www.iisd.org
larue claimed there were no subsidies, this just lists them.your own article says they don’t know;
“It’s difficult to know”!
then they put a graph with the exact amounts. wtf???
sounds idiotoc that the government is going to give money to the oil companies, until you read this …..
“ for example, the federal government’s unconditional transfer of CAD 320 million to Newfoundland and Labrador’s offshore oil sector and Alberta’s CAD 750 million from the Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) fund for the oil and gas sector to reduce emissions.”
THERE IT IS! how liberals talk out of both sides of their mouths. they can claim they are making the earth greener. scamming fucking evil liars who call whores a whore in public, then sleeps with them after.
tax cuts and exemptions are NOT subsidies, especially since a good portion of them are aimed not at the oil industry, but at the end users.larue claimed there were no subsidies, this just lists them.
If you have issues with the accounting, take it up with the gov't or the oil companies for not being clear.
Of course they are subsidies.tax cuts and exemptions are NOT subsidies, especially since a good portion of them are aimed not at the oil industry, but at the end users.
If an airline gets a tax break on fuel, how is that a subsidy to the oil producers?Of course they are subsidies.
That's a subsidy for the airline.If an airline gets a tax break on fuel, how is that a subsidy to the oil producers?
Oh, boy
So what,?Oh, boy