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1. What shade of red would Canada be if that were a map c. 1980?

2. treating Egypt and Saudi on he same basis is ridiculous. Egypt is desperate for foreign support for food and fuel; gas is inexpensive in Saudi.
   And where are the negative colours for the fuel taxes by which we subsidise our govrnments?

3. would be a negative colour , the NEP took money , no subsidies except to Petro Canada ,
   I only went to a PetroCanada gas Station for the first time last year , a 33 year boycott. did not go there until it was a true public company , Suncor owned.

4. From the Posted article-
   Buffet told an audience in Omaha,
   “For example, on wind energy, we get a tax credit,
   if we build a lot of wind farms.
   That’s the only reason to build them.
   They don’t make sense without the tax credit.”
   –
   That is the whole jest of the Bat and Bird Choppers,
   not worth a shit except the rich getting more billions of our tax monies.

5. Not crushing the oil industry with taxation is a subsidy according to the watermelons.
   Oil companies existing at all is a subsidy according to the watermelons.
   Oil royalties not equaling the world retail price for oil is a subsidy to the watermelons.
   Ronald Reagan describes how watermelons treat businesses:
   If it moves, tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it; if it stops moving, subsidize it.
   Fossil fuel energy businesses are at one end of that, and wind/solar are at the other end.
   Facts don’t matter to watermelons, they are out to stop fossil fuel extraction completely. They aren’t in favour of pipelines, despite it being by far the safest and most cost effective way to transport carbon fuels. They don’t care about if means carbon fuels have to be trucked or railed due solely to their hysterical hatred of pipelines because they want all of it to stay in the ground.
   No, we all must use renewable fuels where you have to check for wind and sunlight, where you can run the fridge or the lights, but not at the same time. They’re starving Africa on that basis right now and they want the same for us.
   Of course, they’ll get to keep their watermelon jobs and benefits.

6. Bookmarked!
   “….the renewables subsidies are 8.4 times larger and amount to 94% of the value of the energy produced. This latter statistic is hard to believe, but if it is close to true, it suggests that new renewables are contributing virtually nothing to society.”
   Exactly. But they ARE contributing billions to already filthy rich pirates such as Buffet.

7. Ireland burns peat!

8. Links don’t work and photo doesn’t display???

9. Light relief question?
   Which is the fifth largest country in the world?
   Which is the fifth most spoken language in the world?

10. Delighted not appalled in Qatar. 25 cents/L for premium. 2.5 cents/kwh for juice. Free water and electric if living in government sponsored housing!

11. Kate, thanks for link and plug! The effectiveness of the Green propaganda is a concern. I’m 57 and in those decades I’ve never before been aware of a propaganda machine that has been so effective and with so far reaching a corrosive impact upon the society I live in. It seems that once a certain number begin to believe in something it can become unstoppable. The very fact that so many are wiling to believe that uncommonly early extreme cold in N America is down to radiative warming of the lower troposphere by a few ppm CO2 speaks volumes itself.
    I am less against subsidies themselves than the hypocrisy involved in those in receipt of most subsidies to produce virtually nothing useful, calling those who pay most tax to be in receipt of subsidies that they (The Greens) should rightfully have.
    Its is encouraging to see that Canada and Australia appear to have seen the light – on the hypocrisy front at least – where you make your living digging carbon – it is untenable to worship carbon constraint to others. Britain may be next to follow since UKIP is the only party with a remotely sensible energy policy and is now winning seats. Come the election, I think the Tories will have abandoned the Green Crap. Then in 2 years, the USA will follow, following the Republican presidential landslide.