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• SilasX 12y ago
  The thread started with you giving a link that I had to digest before realizing it didn't say what you claimed. Now you're giving another link to a less neutral source. Suggestion: learn legit example of oil subsidies and describe them in your own words so that I can first vet whether that would count as a subsidy before reading further.
  • jshen 12y ago
    It did say what I claimed, fossil fuels are subsidized. You want to add a qualification that isolates special subsidies that the fossil fuel industry gets which aren't stanfard for all businesses. That's a useful distinction and my second link breaks down some of the specific subsidies. You can read it or not, it's up to you. I'm not your personal summarizer. I'm confident tab intelligent people reading this will agree that the fossil fuel industry is subsidized.
    • SilasX 12y ago
      Yes: when someone tells me X is subsidized, I expect to hear about something the X industry gets that others don't. Because that's what the term means. It's not enough to tell me "X makers get to deduct expenses! Clutch the pearls!"