mintiefresh@piefed.social to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 4 days agoAlberta premier blames Ottawa for Imperial Oil job cuts, but experts say it's a global trendwww.cbc.caexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up168arrow-down11file-text
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minus-squareNik282000@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up33·4 days ago2024, 29 BILLION IN SUBSIDIES. If fossil fuels still has to cut jobs after that then fuck em. Let the industry fail.
minus-squareAuli@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 days agoWhat I don’t get if oil is so great why does the industry need so many subsides.
minus-squareNik282000@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 day agoBecause politicians can’t directly steal 29 gigabucks without consequence. By cranking that money into a crooked industry they can manipulate investments and receive an assload of bribes without scrutiny.
minus-squareTheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up20·4 days agoAnd the UCP can’t afford to pay teachers…
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoAnd Canada can’t afford to do disease research.
2024, 29 BILLION IN SUBSIDIES. If fossil fuels still has to cut jobs after that then fuck em. Let the industry fail.
What I don’t get if oil is so great why does the industry need so many subsides.
Because politicians can’t directly steal 29 gigabucks without consequence. By cranking that money into a crooked industry they can manipulate investments and receive an assload of bribes without scrutiny.
And the UCP can’t afford to pay teachers…
And Canada can’t afford to do disease research.
Or deliver the fucking mail.