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March 9, 2023 1:47pm EST
Biden's budget takes aim at fossil fuel industry with tax hikes
'The claim that they're going to get $31 billion from just repealing oil and gas subsidies is obviously absurd,' tax expert tells Fox News Digital

By Thomas Catenacci | Fox News


President Biden unveiled his proposed budget for fiscal year 2024 on Thursday, which in part took aim at billions of dollars of tax subsidies the White House said benefit the fossil fuel industry.

According to the White House, the proposed budget would strip $31 billion worth of "special tax treatment" for oil and gas company investments in addition to other fossil fuel tax preferences. The release further criticized oil companies for raking in record profits last year and for failing to invest in greater energy production.

"The President is committed to ending tens of billions of dollars of federal tax subsidies for oil and gas companies. Even as they benefit from billions of dollars in special tax breaks, oil companies have failed to invest in production," the White House said in a statement.

"In 2022, they realized record profits and cut their investment as a share of operating cash flows to the lowest levels in decade, while undertaking record stock buybacks that benefited executives and wealthy shareholders," the statement added. "The Budget saves $31 billion by eliminating special tax treatment for oil and gas company investments, as well as other fossil fuel tax preferences."

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Re: Biden's budget takes aim at fossil fuel industry with tax hikes
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2023, 04:45:49 pm »
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Number of mentions in Biden's budget...

—Climate: 148
—Equity: 63
—Environmental justice: 25
—Transgender: 8
—Intersex: 7

—Inflation (not including so-called “Inflation Reduction Act”): 10
—Border security: 8
—Police: 8
—Parents: 3
—Gas prices: 3
—Fentanyl: 2
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Re: Biden's budget takes aim at fossil fuel industry with tax hikes
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2023, 09:46:51 pm »
democrats tell us with all, their massive reckless spending that they are going to heavily tax us, and are now going to ensure skyrocketing energy prices.  Magic windmills and solar will be the death of us all, but the sweet sweet lies were SO addictive, right?
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Another Biden sick bastard budget painting paradise, delivering desolation, a ploy mention in the Bible of the tactics of the wicked, still relevant.
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Re: Biden's budget takes aim at fossil fuel industry with tax hikes
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2023, 11:03:01 pm »
Not sure where he is getting his data when he (lies) asserts that energy companies are not investing in production.

But let's crack that nut...

Energy companies are limited by something known as takeaway capacity. It simply does not pay to produce more oil than you can ship to market.
The Biden Administration, starting DAY ONE, stopped the Keystone XL pipeline from being constructed even though the project was over ten years along. That would have meant 800,000 barrels of takeaway capacity, and granted that most of that would have been Canadian Crude Oil moving through that pipeline, some 100,000 barrels a day or so of it would have been likely to be from North Dakota and Montana, crude oil from the Bakken and other formations in the Williston Basin.

Not to mention closing off huge areas (in violation of Federal Law) by simply not complying with the law and allowing bids on mineral leases on Federal Land.

He shut down ANWR, and associated oil producing areas from new drilling, not only guaranteeing another (as much as) one million barrels of oil a day would not be produced, but underutilizing the Alaska Pipeline infrastructure as well, costing Alaskans money, each and every one.

He continues to wage war on "fossil fuels" including Natural Gas, even though we were assured that it was 'the clean energy of the future' when his Democratic predecessor was waging war on coal.

Offshore blocks have been denied from leasing, too.

Despite this, in the past 12 months, I have personally been involved on some two dozen wells, some of which had frac crews on site as soon as the drilling rigs were moved out. No one is letting DUC (Drilled but UnCompleted) wells sit, mainly because frac prices are down, and getting that production on line translates to revenue. Of course, that money is being spent in North Dakota, Wyoming, Texas, and New Mexico, only one of which is arguably a blue state.
 
The Majors (global reach oil companies) are investing elsewhere, off shore Africa or South America, or even the Middle East, where the governments are composed of relatively more stable and sane people.

Seems if the oil/gas/coal/other energy companies don't do what he thinks they should be doing (with private money) he thinks he should be taking their hard won assets from them.

It's no secret that America's economy, and even National Security is dependent on our own sources of energy.

He's not merely a chicken choker, he wants to strangle the golden goose as well.
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Re: Biden's budget takes aim at fossil fuel industry with tax hikes
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2023, 11:05:22 pm »
Thanks for that, Joe. Very informative.
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Re: Biden's budget takes aim at fossil fuel industry with tax hikes
« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2023, 03:08:30 am »
Odd how effective and reliable energy sources coal, oil, nuclear, hydroelectric that are greatly beneficial to a host Country, except directly opposed by WOKE democrats to be kept from America, but highly encouraged for foreign nations by the same democrats, who as expected foreign nations greatly benefit by these hate America/American policies..
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