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cliffelam  ·  4620 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Heh, promise kept
You should talk to people making not very much money -they're getting killed.

We have thousands of years of easily accessible coal in this country and probably darn near as much oil. Probably making it "clean enough" is easier and cheaper than any alternative.

-XC





mk  ·  4620 days ago  ·  link  ·  
    You should talk to people making not very much money -they're getting killed.

We could start by giving the oil subsidies back to them as a tax break. That might ease some pain. Every oil company is in the black.

I agree it might be cheaper and easier atm, but the goal is to develop alternatives to get that competitive. That takes investment, and considering the possible benefits, I don't think we have been very serious about it:

http://pre.cloudfront.goodinc.com/posts/full_1299596576_d235...

cliffelam  ·  4620 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Most of the people not making much money already don't pay income tax, so you're in EITC area. Which I think is a bad thing.

The "subsidies" are mostly tax breaks. I'm a fan of fewer of those, you betcha.

-XC

mk  ·  4620 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Fair enough. Well, maybe put the cash into updating our mass transit system. Economic stimulus in the construction, and the poor have more alternatives to pumping gas.

As an aside, if there was a high-speed rail between Detroit and Chicago, I'd visit Chicago twice as much.