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Today’s Eco BS From The Telegraph
« on: August 15, 2017, 09:24:09 am »

Today’s Eco BS From The Telegraph
August 14, 2017
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By Paul Homewood
 

Part II from the Telegraph’s woeful weekend!

It is written by Maurice Tulloch, who is chief executive of international insurance at Aviva:

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2017/08/14/todays-eco-bs-from-the-telegraph/

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Re: Today’s Eco BS From The Telegraph
« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2017, 04:17:41 am »
So they come up with a BS answer, excluding tax breaks from the definition of a "subsidy" for fossil fuels so they can encourage the burning of natural gas.  Great.
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Re: Today’s Eco BS From The Telegraph
« Reply #2 on: August 16, 2017, 05:21:31 am »
So they come up with a BS answer, excluding tax breaks from the definition of a "subsidy" for fossil fuels so they can encourage the burning of natural gas.  Great.
Yeah, "tax breaks" like deducting the expenses from the income to reach the actual profit.

Like any other business does.

What tax breaks?

What subsidy?

The people getting subsidies are the solar and wind power industries. Electric cars.

Not the oil industry, that's the cash cow. It pays royalties to mineral owners (including the government), it pays up front for leases to drill for those minerals (oil and gas, including the Government), and it pays extraction taxes for every barrel that comes out of the ground as well.
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