Democrats push effort to kill ‘handouts’ for fossil fuels in Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’. The “End Polluter Welfare Act” would cut more than $190 billion in subsidies for the fossil fuel industry over the next decade. “No more polluter welfare for an industry that is making billions every year.”

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1. Good. This won’t go anywhere under the current administration, but we need to see efforts to bring these damaging subsidies to public attention.

2. Explain why it takes a decade for a profitable industry?

3. I mean they get more than that annually but it’s a start

4. Renewable energy would be so much more competitive if this passes.

5. What were those payouts?

6. So keeping your local gas station open and public service vehicles on the road. Or even going to work. Maybe the trucks will deliver your groceries to you. Or even the military services protecting our country . oh yes keeping most things open. . I bet you have a solution for everything .

7. But these companies paid millions of $$$ to Trump’s election fund.

   Are they not entitled to get billions back for the millions they put in?

   (/s, if that was not obvious.)

8. Yeah, this bill throws away our last chance at long term survival.

9. That’s going to be really unpopular, granted mostly among people that don’t support us anyway. I guess turnabout is fair play. They could have accommodated the green transition gracefully, but they chose the way of pain. This is, of course, symbolic in any case.

10. If only………

11. Koch will be so mad. So republicans won’t allow it.

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