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[–] RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world 48 points 5 days ago

There is not a single thing this guy does that is not designed to take money from people who have less than him. He's only happy if you're suffering and he is not, because that makes him feel better than you.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Fossil fuel companies spent millions of dollars getting Trump elected last year; one report from the advocacy group Climate Power puts the total number at $445 million.
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the amount of public money the US will now spend on domestic fossil fuels stands at least $34.8 billion a year.

That's a good ROI

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Carbon capture and storage is the process of capturing CO2 emissions and injecting them deep underground. The oil and gas industry has for decades injected CO2 underground to help recover difficult reserves that don’t respond well to traditional drilling methods. Environmentalists have long argued that the logic of replicating an oil and gas technique as a climate solution is seriously flawed—especially considering that a company could reap a climate tax credit from injecting CO2 that will then be used to create more fossil fuels

Ohhh, the fuckery

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 5 points 5 days ago

In the original Inflation Reduction Act, which significantly expanded the existing carbon capture tax credit, there was a price differential baked into the tax credits: Producers got more money per ton of CO2 they sequestered underground without any oil production involved, and less for CO2 used specifically to produce more oil and gas. But the One Big Beautiful Bill Act eliminated this differential, allowing producers to collect on the full credit even if they are using CO2 to produce more fossil fuels. The total expansion of tax credits for carbon capture in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the analysis found, could send out more than $1.4 billion of public money to oil and gas companies each year.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 35 points 5 days ago

Remember last November when we didn't have to do this?

[–] Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Everyone should stop working

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Well, I think doctors and farmers and journalists should keep working

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago

Anyone who pretends to be surprised by this is either a liar, a moron, or both.

[–] TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

While at the same time paying more for the now unsubsidized renewables.

Speed running the end of civilization! Go MAGA!

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The US has been subsidizing fossil fuel production for more than a century

This country is run by idiots. You're supposed to tax fossil fuels out of existence, not subsidize them..

[–] Xed@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 days ago

They want to destroy the planet as soon as they possibly can just for the sake of greed

They'll get away with it too, because humanity turns out to just be collective cowardice.

[–] etherphon@midwest.social 2 points 5 days ago

Won't someone think of the poor oil execs and saudi princes? /s

This technology in-between time is so uncomfortable. I feel like we have all this potential but we're just stuck, it is so disheartening, hopefully we'll get over it sometime but it's not looking so promising.

[–] Subdivide6857@midwest.social 1 points 5 days ago

So business as usual. Death to amerikkka.