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Should the government stop providing subsidies to all energy sources, eg, coal, oil, solar and wind?

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Yes		41%	37 votes	Total: 90 votes
No		59%	53 votes	Total: 90 votes

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by Gene Denardo

Energy subsidizes of any kind to any industry, whether oil, coal, wind or solar, are simply transfers of wealth from the pockets of the working citizens to Resource and Energy C...read more
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by Michael Isaacson

The government should stop all subsidies to energy consumption, and if it still wants to spend, should fund alternative energy research through matching funds. When the govern...read more
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by Roberto Alvarez-Galloso

Most of the problems related to energy is due to the micromanagement of energy sources by the state. This has existed in countries such as Cuba, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, and the USA...read more
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by David Payton

United States Government energy source subsidies originally existed to encourage new or alternate technologies that had not reached a level of sustainable profitability. This ge...read more

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by Daniel J. Gansle

The short answer to the question of whether the government should stop providing subsidies to all energy sources is no. Rather, it becomes a question of prioritization on which ...read more
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by Skye Martin

Government subsidies to energy sources in the U.S. has long been over influenced or outright controlled by business and led to or maintained monopolies. With this in considerat...read more
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by Ebey Soman

America is riddled with subsidies everywhere you look, mostly benefiting large cooperations and companies benefiting instead of the small businesses or small farmers or the righ...read more
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by Bill Whitney

I think that if the United States Government would provide more subsidies to energy sources and much, much less subsidies to Illegal immigrants, we would all be a lot better of...read more
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by Lou Jones

No, our government should not stop subsidizing all energy sources. It should stop providing subsidies to companies that produce non-renewable resources. Meanwhile, every ta...read more

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