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It's not because they want to annoy environmentalists, the republican party just receives a massive amount of campaign funding and lobbying from the oil industr
by coltonv 9y ago
It's not because they want to annoy environmentalists, the republican party just receives a massive amount of campaign funding and lobbying from the oil industry. They do stuff like this and deny climate change because if they don't they'll lose a significant chunk of campaign funding and the oil Giants will just back another candidate in the primary. Democrats are guilty of this too, but oil primarily goes after Republicans.
- tbabb 9y agoAlso interesting/telling: all of a sudden the republicans are against "free market" trade here.
- mowenz 9y ago>all of sudden US politicians have been awful about this for a long time. We have tarrifs on an embarassing number of things from cheese to sneakers to auto parts... While we scold and bully other countries for their own protectionists policies and tell them to 'do as I day, not as I do,' and open their borders.