Sentences with phrase «subsidies for oil companies»

He would retain subsidies for oil companies — but eliminate them for the forms of renewable energy, which he nevertheless says he «loves.»

My hope is that victories like this one will help build the momentum to generate the kind of people power necessary to move the needle on comprehensive climate policy — policy that prices carbon, removes subsidies for oil companies, and encourages clean energy development.

She has also aggressively opposed increased offshore drilling and subsidies for oil companies, instead supporting additional research to spur investment in green jobs.

The SAP refers to removing tax subsidies for oil companies as «tax increases.»

Bart R laments that this is nothing compared to alleged subsidies for oil companies, laughingly referring to the pack of politically - motivated lies, distortions and information - hiding by the likes of Mann, as «knowledge».

One of the nation's most conservative districts has made it clear that sacrificing Medicare for continued tax cuts on the wealthiest 2 % and subsidies for oil companies is NOT acceptable.

Tax cuts for the rich, subsidies for oil companies that raked in billions in profits, laws passed making it much more difficult to declare bankruptcy and also legislation absolving big phrams of any lawsuits due to their non compete policies.

Republicans are fighting for billionaires & millionaires, oil subsidies for the oil companies, tax loopholes for corporations, taxbreaks for companies that send American jobs overseas.

Not exact matches

Responding to Tory charges that the NDP's proposed cap - and - trade system would wind up raising gas prices by 10 cents per litre, Jack Layton blamed Stephen Harper «s subsidies to big oil companies and support for the harmonized sales tax in Ontario for higher gas prices.

Trump's closest energy advisers, like Carl Icahn and Harold Hamm (who each own oil companies), have been calling for an end to subsidies.

The poor and middle class will pay for the tax cuts to the rich and subsidies to the oil companies.

A state - owned oil company which can award contracts worth billions of dollars without the knowledge of the minister of state for petroleum who is also chair of its board, and which can administer a petrol subsidy scheme that is not budgeted for is probably not an epitome of anti-corruption!

So... while (1) subsidies for businesses (like the oil companies» outrageous subsidies) are a CREDIT or GAIN from the perspective of businesses, they most certainly can be called (2) handouts or foregone income or SPENDING from the government's perspective... which is a DEBIT or LOSS for the government.

In fact, the bill Obama voted for raised taxes on oil companies by $ 300 million over 11 years while providing $ 5.8 billion in subsidies for renewable energy, energy efficiency and alternative fuels.

Isn't it ironic that five major oil company leaders were there to beg congress to continue the subsidies for oil production introduced during the low price period of 1997 - 1998.

Trillions are spent on war where oil is the key political factor, hundreds of billions on subsidies for rich companies that reap huge short - term profits, both in fossil fuels and pseudo-green technologies like corn ethanol and biodiesel.

Regardless of what the Heritage Foundation thinks, the government can and does have a role to play... cut taxes on businesses and individuals who help us build a green future, conduct research or provide subsidies for private companies to do it, help people make their homes energy efficient, and educate, educate, educate the American people as to what's at stake if we don't pry ourselves away from the oil / coal / gas faucet.

This ignorance leads to radio ads decrying NIMBYism as the only reason for disallowing offshore drilling, even while these rich landowners still don't allow any wind / solar where they can see, make up all sorts of lies about wind / solar, while bush refuses to give equal subsidies to «alternative» energy and refuses to tax windfall profits to oil companies, who break records year after year in profits...

For starters, we absolutely have to eliminate the estimated annual $ 37 billion in subsidies to the oil, gas, and coal companies, as Hanson suggests.

McGuinty ceded that his proposals to implement renewables were poorly planned and managed; renewable projects were taken over by deep pocketed oil companies that would foist them on people in notably contentious locations giving wind a bad name, high FITs that did not adjust to market forces over the long term, no comprehensive agreement with neighbours for better power sharing agreements, no power storage strategy, no coordinated conservation or efficiency plan that included distributed generation, CHP, microCHP, automated demand response management, and worst of all there was no options analysis of subsidies to various producers.

Perhaps some more «green» corporate welfare subsidies and tax cuts for oil companies?

«Romney's Chief Energy Advisor Defends Plan to Give Tax Subsidies to Oil Companies Main Risky Business: Kentucky May Not Get Paid for India Coal Deal»

Any reader is free to search my article for the words» oil companies receive no monetary benefit from government subsidies.»

I would not call money spent preventing sudden disruptions in supply (as a result of violent conflict) a subsidy if it is preventing global price spikes, which tend to create corresponding profit spikes for oil companies.

Obama said that the bill would be paid for by eliminating the tax subsidies currently given to profitable oil and gas companies.

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.