Sentences with phrase «oil subsidies now»

We need to end oil subsidies now.

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Now 50 % of the country takes some kind of help from the government, whether it's fuel oil assistance, food stamps, or some subsidy.

With oil prices as low as they are, now would be a perfect time for other countries to follow Morocco's lead — either slashing oil, coal and gas subsidies or raising their gas taxes before prices start to rise again.

North Korea might have been planning to nuke us, but now their unusual leader seems to be more interested in getting lucrative oil subsidies and getting a large screen flat panel 1080p HDTV manufactured in South Korea on which he can watch DVD movies and TV shows from Japan, Hollywood, Bollywood and Europe.

Their critics say their stance, however well intentioned, will produce the real delays, given how much can be done now simply by cutting energy waste with tools already on the shelf — ranging from strengthening efficiency standards to eliminating billions of dollars in persistent fossil - fuel subsidies that continue to make coal and oil much cheaper than they really are when all their hidden costs are revealed.

Now we're all out on the campaign trail talking about taking the tax subsidies away from the oil companies, some of which were in that 2005 energy bill.

Now is the time to cut fossil fuel subsidies and implement a carbon tax, it argues, as the low oil price reduces the policies» effect on consumers.

But basically, I believe that the only reason there's so much resistance — including at this exact moment while the US Senate for the third time now since the Democrats have taken over, is trying to pass a bill that will get the tax subsidies away from the most profitable corporations in the history of corporations ever, which are the major oil companies and move those tax subsidies.