Coal and oil are the two most polluting fossil fuels and energy sources to date. Despite this, both are receiving huge subsidies from the United States federal and local governments.
To Climate Progress, the coal industry received around $3 billion (2.2 billion euros) per year between 2002 and 2008 and to the New York Times, the oil industry gets even more, $4 billion (3 billion euros).
Giving around $7 billion each year to industries that pollute our air, our water and our soil so they just can keep polluting is just insane.
I believe the US Government should know better and found renewables and efficiency projects. This is what President Obama is willing to do. Let’s hope he will succeed, for the United States, but for the entire world as well…
We Europeans aren’t clean on these issues as well as we keep supporting coal…
insanity, but worse–mindlessness of a public highly deluded, and a congress highly diluted…