Stephan A. Schwartz
This is how you buy the government of the United States. You say,
“$721 million is a lot of money.” I respond it is a cost of business
item. Fossil fuel companies operating in the U.S. and Canada made $271
billion dollars in profit in 2012, while continuing to receive billions
in subsidies. As of April 14, 2014 , according to Mother Jones,
“Taxpayers currently subsidize the oil industry by as much as $4.8
billion a year, with about half of that going to the big five oil
companies—ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, BP, and ConocoPhillips.” So let me
see. They spent $721 million to buy the government; they got $4.8
billion in subsidies. And the conclusion is: You and I paid the fossil
fuel companies through subsidies, money which they metaphorically in
turn used to buy the government so that it operates responsive to their
interests, rather than the interests of the citizens who paid the taxes.
What a deal.
The Fossil Fuel Industry Spent More Than $721 Million During 2014’s Midterm Elections
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