mintiefresh@piefed.social to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 months agoAlberta premier blames Ottawa for Imperial Oil job cuts, but experts say it's a global trendwww.cbc.caexternal-linkmessage-square12linkfedilinkarrow-up168arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareNik282000@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up33·2 months ago2024, 29 BILLION IN SUBSIDIES. If fossil fuels still has to cut jobs after that then fuck em. Let the industry fail.
minus-squareTheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up20·2 months agoAnd the UCP can’t afford to pay teachers…
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoAnd Canada can’t afford to do disease research.
minus-squareAuli@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoWhat I don’t get if oil is so great why does the industry need so many subsides.
minus-squareNik282000@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-22 months agoBecause politicians can’t directly steal 29 gigabucks without consequence. By cranking that money into a crooked industry they can manipulate investments and receive an assload of bribes without scrutiny.
2024, 29 BILLION IN SUBSIDIES. If fossil fuels still has to cut jobs after that then fuck em. Let the industry fail.
And the UCP can’t afford to pay teachers…
And Canada can’t afford to do disease research.
Or deliver the fucking mail.
What I don’t get if oil is so great why does the industry need so many subsides.
Because politicians can’t directly steal 29 gigabucks without consequence. By cranking that money into a crooked industry they can manipulate investments and receive an assload of bribes without scrutiny.