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Greasing Their Alms
On oil subsidies |
Umbra Fisk |
03 Aug 2005 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, Grist keeps mentioning that the U.S. government gives large subsidies to oil companies, but doesn't go further into what these subsidies are. I can't make a good argument against the government's subsidizing Big Oil if I don't know more about it: Are the subsidies tax breaks, and if so, for what? Are the tax breaks larger than for most other large companies? How biased is our treatment of Big Oil? Christine Hillsboro, Or ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, Big Oil, business, energy, oil, politics (all these topics) |
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