To be clear, the federal government does engage in the handing out of a lot of actual subsidies, including those for ethanol and a variety of wasteful programs which are essentially failures on their own merit without feeding off the teat of Uncle Sam. And we should certainly be looking at those areas as way to address cost cutting. But trying to depict tax credits used by the energy industry – in the same fashion as every other industry – as some sort of special love festival for Big Oil is dishonest.

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If they are the same as other industries then it is a giant red herring by the left.



Don't they get something extra? If not the media has done a good job pulling the wool over people's eyes.

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The article claims they don't.

I'm waiting to see if it's disputed.