Republicans Propping Up the Fossil Fuel Industry Is Borderline Socialist

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In the Republican worldview, “liberty” and “freedom” are the unfettered ability of their political cronies to rob Americans of their health, well-being, and lives.

, “Those who identify fossil fuels as the enemy have misidentified what the enemy is. It’s the emissions.” At least Graves is one of the few congressional Republicans concerned about climate change, but he and his like-minded colleagues are mistaken: The enemy is the taxpayer cost of pulling out all stops to keep the coal industry afloat, in a sea of inexpensive natural gas and renewable energy sources.

But thanks to Republican interventions, these costs are instead borne by the American public in the form of millions of avoidable illnesses and hundreds of thousands of lives lost annually to pollution from coal-fired power plants, harmful pesticides sprayed over millions of acres of crops, and toxic chemicals that are everywhere, even in the fabric of your living room sofa. Energy, agriculture, and chemicals are not bad things. They are essential to modern human life.

 

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Freedom is a good thing only if you use it wisely. If you use your freedom to do things that are selfish and unwise and ultimately do more harm than good, that's not a wise use of freedom. 🙄

Exactly. Privatize the profits, socialize the costs, then offer a few weasel words for the spin.

More liberal redefinition of a term to suit their selfish needs. What else is new?

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