^I don't disagree that renewables should be subsidized through tax breaks, but they already are. And there are good reasons for oil industry tax breaks and things like flow-through shares, that just have to do with the nature of the O&G industry and how capital works in that industry. It's highly idiosyncratic, which is why it doesn't have preferential treatment so much as an entirely separate tax regime that applies exclusively to O&G production. This is a function of its weirdness, not a result of lobbying to keep the system in place. No lobbyist came up with COGPE.
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