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It's not someone's future grandpa resisting a carbon tax, but massive lobbying by the coal and oil industry. https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?i
by teachrdan 8y ago
It's not someone's future grandpa resisting a carbon tax, but massive lobbying by the coal and oil industry.
https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=E1210 https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=E1210
https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=E01 https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=E01
- JamesBarney 8y agoAnd a lot of oil is in favor of a carbon tax because it shifts more electricity away from coal to oil than from oil to wind/solar.
- teachrdan 8y agoPerhaps. But oil companies give millions to climate change-denying politicians, and to think tanks that falsely claim that there is no human-driven climate change. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/15/exxon-mobil-gave-millions-climate-denying-lawmakers https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/15/exxon-mo... https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/jul/01/exxon-mobil-climate-change-sceptics-funding https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/jul/01/exxon-mo...
- JamesBarney 8y agoThis is just saying oil and ags gives lots of money to Republicans which I don't think is a surprise to anyone especially because Republicans tend to not only bw climate change deniers but are also anti-environmentalism, which oil and gas still very much funds.