The Price of Oil » Energy Activism http://priceofoil.org Oil Change International campaigns to expose the true costs of fossil fuels and facilitate the coming transition towards clean energy. We are dedicated to identifying and overcoming barriers to that transition. Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:44:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Separate Oil and State http://priceofoil.org/2010/10/13/separate-oil-and-state/ http://priceofoil.org/2010/10/13/separate-oil-and-state/#comments Thu, 14 Oct 2010 02:04:37 +0000 Elizabeth Bast http://priceofoil.org/?p=7909 Continue reading 'Separate Oil and State'.]]> Our government should not be under the influence of Big Oil.

The greatest barriers to clean energy are political, not technical—and these barriers are largely fueled by the oil industry. We know that in order to achieve a clean energy future, we have to expose and eradicate the political influence of the oil industry; we have to achieve a separation of oil & state.

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Estimates of the value of US federal subsidies to the domestic oil industry alone (not coal) range from roughly $6 billion to an amazing $39 billion annually.  Billions more US federal dollars each year go to “oil aid” – money to fossil fuel corporations in the name of international development assistance.

We shouldn’t be giving any of our tax money to subsidize these corporations that already set record profits while polluting. And we shouldn’t be spending our limited foreign aid dollars financing destructive oil, gas and coal projects.

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