After last night’s Valdosta City Council meeting,
someone told me he thought all renewable energy sources
required subsidies, and that was the problem.
Well, I think the real problem is the much larger
subsidies to big oil.
Dan Froomkin wrote in huffpo
How The Oil Lobby Greases Washington’s Wheels:
Despite astronomical profits during what have been lean years for
most everyone else, the oil and gas industry continues to benefit from
massive, multi-billion dollar taxpayer subsidies. Opinion polling shows
the American public overwhelmingly wants those subsidies eliminated.
That’s at least $4 billion a year to big oil while Congress debates cutting
Social Security and Medicare and maybe shutting down the government.
According to the American Petroleum Institute (API),