Gary Varvel for September 15, 2022

Clearly Varvel thinks that doing anything to promote ecological choices is unamerican and downright SOCIALIST (because that’s a trigger word). Article today about a study by folks with actual expertise who examined the cost of moving away from petro-fuel. It’s in the $TRILLIONS over the fairly short term. Oh, and that’s actually a NEGATIVE cost aka savings.

Yeah, subsidies are supposed to go to oil companies so they can donate to republican politicians.

Varvel LIEs again.

AS IF oil companies have not been receiving subsidies and preferential tax treatment, as well as exemption from anti-trust and restraint of trade laws for a century.

Government largess is supposed to go to the 1% in the form of unneeded tax breaks and PPP loans which never were intended to be paid back. Sheesh ….

More Subsidies for the Rich who can afford a $60,000 Virtue Signaling Car.

Because “Paying Back Special Interests for Their Campaign Contributions Act” didn’t do well in focus groups.

Isn’t that the truth!

About time we subsidize something that makes sense and will benefit us.

And if Wind and Solar plus Pixie Dust aren’t enough to keep people from freezing this winter, Old Slo Joe’s got Maduro and the Ayatollahs on speed dial. Just as long as they don’t drill in the US.

Varvel missed the largest one that’s been going to the fossil fuel Industry for decades.

Gary wants us dependent on the middle east forever

I’m a boomer, I have a lot of past. My new granddaughter has a lot of future. I vote for those fighting for progress vs. regress.

The effort it must take for Varvel and friends to stay actively ignorant about renewable energy has to be enormous.

Yes invest Billions now or pay Trillions (probably Quadrillion) to repair all of the infrastructure that will be needed when the oceans rise and parts of the world (and America) are uninhabitable because of climate change

Republicans will solve the problem by giving the 1% more tax breaks.

I guess Varvel would rather choke on polluted air.

Biden just celebrated another month of high inflation. Idiot.

Do you think that if the cartoonist and the usual crowd of nattering nabobs of negativism were around in the late 1950s/early 1960s they would have been complaining about all of the subsidies going to that new-fangled computer industry?

Wrong animals, Gary. A pig is slaughtered and eaten once. Renewable energy is properly represented by a milk cow or a draught horse.

Varvel continues to demonstrate his economic illiteracy!

I thought the big subsidies went to the oil companies. The Environmental and Energy Study Institute found that the US government alone spends $20 billion every year on direct fossil fuel subsidies. Of that figure, around $16 billion goes towards oil and gas, while the remaining $4 billion benefits the coal industry. Mar 28, 2022.

Where did you all think the money was going to go? To help people?

You know what, I’ll take that analogy. Why do we feed pigs lots of food? To make them fat so that they will give us tasty bacon. Why fatten up alternative energy sources? Because a fat, healthy alternate energy sector will help us kick the fossil fuel addiction we have and provide clean, cheap energy free of global politics.

Lard it on and bring home the bacon.

Programs that will actually end up saving us trillions of dollars in the future.

Read Doonesbury.

Good one! If only I could share it to my FB page!

Inflation would be impacting me less if I could drive an electric car while having solar panels on my house.

I would really like to know what the earmarks are and to who. The thicker the paperwork them more questionable payment’s.

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/fossil-fuels-received-5-9-trillion-in-subsidies-in-2020-report-finds#:~:text=Coal%2C%20oil%2C%20and%20natural%20gas,8%20percent%20of%20the%20total.