Big Oil, Record Profits, and Tax Breaks: D&C jumps on the Band Wagon
Hey D&C Op-ed page Welcome aboard - hope you didn’t pull a muscle jumping on the bandwagon.
Nevertheless, the federal government shouldn’t be in the position of subsidizing the oil industry’s windfall profits. The House should push ahead on legislation that would extend tax breaks for renewable sources of energy such as solar and wind projects.
Let me give you a hand by reminding you that this page was really really pissed at the Energy bill passed by Congress. That my Congressman, Randy Kuhl, initially voted against it because oil companies tax breaks were removed. He, of course, voted for it when oil company tax breaks were restored.
The D&C wrote an op-ed Dec 24, 2007 saying that Energy Bill was a first step. Conveniently forgetting or omitting mention about these tax breaks. I spoke about it here. In the meanwhile y’all have been railing on the Presidential candidates to discuss more it while conveniently forgetting about Congress who actually passes the laws. Despite as the previous link says - the Democrats have been discussing it all along.
So does it take a bunch of CEOs talking in front of Congress to motivate you D&C Ed page? I mean this was an issue in 2005.
So welcome aboard. Hope you stay awhile
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Why do you pick on poor old John R. Kuhl so much? He diligently went to Brazil using taxpayer money to learn what Brazil was doing to alleviate their dependence on oil. Now, John R. Kuhl is using what he has learned in Brazil to take actions that move the United States in the direction of less dependence on oil, isn’t he?
Why do you pick on the D&C Editorial Board so much? You can’t expect them to remember what they wrote a few months ago, much less advocate positions that are consistent with what they wrote a few months ago. You can’t expect an editorial board to have the same consistency of purpose and ideology that the rest of us have, the mere fact that they write editorials should be cause for praise.
Stlo7, please remember you are superhuman and the rest of us are not!
Well paige - thanks for over inflating my ego. I’m sure everyone will appreciate me even more now.
Seriously - It isn’t about being superhuman - something I’m certainly not but is it about connecting the dots and relating things.
Something blogs can do and deadtree media like the D&C does not.
Okay, then I give you permission to continue picking on John R. Kuhl and the D&C Editorial board…
Well Ok - I can do that…
[...] the two faces of Randy Kuhl emerge (and on September 8th, they’re caught on film), but again. Randy votes against the Energy Bill when tax breaks for Big Oil are removed and then votes for it when they are [...]