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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Right, exactly! Only us as consumers can actually really effect change. We have the dollars to support what we want. But the government has to power to do things like subsidize oil production or subsidize green energy prodution or offer incentives for the production of either. If the government chooses to subsidize oil and offer incentives to produce it, the green energy market is at a huge disadvantage.
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But that isn't what the government has chosen to do. There are some tax advantages for O and G companies just like seemingly every industry but there is nothing like the direct subsidies that go towards green energy. Ontario guarantees prices for solar and wind power that are 4-8 times higher than the going rate for electricity to encourage growth. Given that you seem to accept this as true, how do you make the leap to the oil and gas lobby preventing oil from being replaced? Oil and gas are some of the cheapest scalable sources of energy that we have available. They are also easy and safe to distribute and use. That is why we use them, it has nothing to do with some secretive lobby group.