Won't anyone think of the poor oil industry?? How else can we continue to support the industry with little capital to invest in exploration, development, and paying off politicians?
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We are so hopelessly corrupt as a nation
This is the best summary I could come up with:
That tax break proved so lucrative it prompted celebrities like Jimmy Stewart, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby to become oilmen on the side, buying interests in oil wells and using the deduction to shelter their Hollywood income.
Last year, American companies pumped 13 million barrels each day on average, a record that had made the United States the largest crude oil producer in the world, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Instead of investing in their businesses, the oil and gas companies have poured profits into “stock buybacks, mergers, and acquisitions that benefited executives and wealthy shareholders,” the Biden administration said on a fact sheet accompanying the budget proposal.
“The Biden Administration and their radical climate advisers have disregarded common sense by requesting Congress remove these incentives before we accomplish an energy transition that doesn’t sacrifice reliability and affordability,” Mr. Manchin said in a statement.
“It’s just corporate welfare,” said Joseph Aldy, a professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University who served as a special adviser to President Barack Obama on energy issues.
Others note the irony of continued government support for fossil fuels at a time when scientists say nations must rapidly transition away from oil, gas and coal to cut the carbon emissions that are driving climate change.
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Geez, especially that intangible drilling benefit, needs to go. From the description in that article, that would be a great idea to encourage the risky process of new drilling. I can see how we’d want to do that for most of the last century. However, it should have been the first subsidy to go when we started trying to transition to renewables. Why encourage development of new resources that we’re trying to move away from?
It’s the same thing with new pipelines. Assuming everything remains the same, they’d be a great investment, but we can’t afford to have ebpverything remain the same. Arguably we can’t afford a long enough timeline for them to pay off. Why destroy the environment for a long term investment that we’re trying to stop
Starting this year I now have an extra tax I must pay because I use too little oil. 120$ btw
It’s so irrational that he can’t just… do it!? Like wasn’t he elected by Americans to make decisions on behalf of the people, of whom overwhelmingly support sensible decisions like this!?
I know the world is more complex than this but surely we need to unfuck the world like DAMN we’re just going to collapse instead…
The US government is designed to split power across multiple individials and institutions. So no, he can't just do some things. And changing the tax code is one of them.
Most people don't understand the US government. Not even at a broad "separation of powers" level.
In particular, Congress has the power to levy taxes and allocate budgets. All the President can do is influence, encourage. He has more influence within his own party but they all vote according to their beliefs, and he has very little influence on the opposing party
We're producing more oil under Biden than any nation in history.
I don't think that's something controllable by a single person. Especially given any attempt at regulating the oil industry has been overruled by the authoritarian supreme court.
He and his supporters brag about it.