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   mark (atleagle@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 03:10:30 JST mark

   • Laffy

   @GottaLaff have to keep watching for increases in subsidies. We are dumb enough to pay that increase for them

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     mark (atleagle@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 05:46:29 JST mark

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     • Kevin Leecaster

     @GreenFire @GottaLaff don't be so sensitive. I didn't mention biden, and I didn't direct that statement towards him. Budget doesn't start with the president, and omnibus bills for spending are notorious for pet projects.

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     Kevin Leecaster (greenfire@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 05:46:30 JST Kevin Leecaster

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     • Laffy

     @ATLeagle @GottaLaff
     The U.S. does not subsidize oil and gas development directly unlike a lot of other countries so try for some other reason to criticize Joe Biden's efforts.

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     mark (atleagle@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 05:52:06 JST mark

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     • Kevin Leecaster

     @GreenFire @GottaLaff The Joint Committee on Taxation, a nonpartisan panel of Congress, has estimated that eliminating it could generate $13 billion for the public coffers over 10 years.

     https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/biden-budget-targets-us-fossil-fuel-subsidies-2023-03-09/

     That part I'd specifically relevant to my statement. This matters too...

     U.S. subsidies for the fossil fuel industry is complex because the incentives stretch across the U.S. tax code, but estimates range from $10 to $50 billion per year.

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     mark (atleagle@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2024 00:35:48 JST mark

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     • Kevin Leecaster

     @GreenFire @GottaLaff blocked

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     Kevin Leecaster (greenfire@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2024 00:35:49 JST Kevin Leecaster

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     • Laffy

     @ATLeagle @GottaLaff
     You are the one the sensitive one that replied to a progressive policy move from the Biden administration cynically.

     Here's data from the International Monetary Fund putting U.S. fossil fuel subsidies in some context to address your cynical attack too.

     Do you remember how to read log-scale plots?