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Originally Posted by Evergreen6
Trivia question:
How much taxpayer money annually is given to oil companies in the US in the form of subsidy? What would the average price of fuel at the pump be without that money?
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Most of what you're lumping into the term "
subsidies" are tax deductions based on depreciation schedules and paying taxes in foreign countries. Not outright graft handing money to retail buyers as a reward for buying what the government told them to buy, over other competing choices in the marketplace.