Oil Anthem

What happens when an oil industry CEO says it's "Un-American" to discontinue tax breaks for the richest industry in the world. Cartoonists get a little peeved, apparently. Find out more about the big five oil companies and how they want you to be more American! A Mark Fiore political animation.

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News & Politics

Tags:

• oil
• gas prices
• oil subsidies
• oil industry
• fossil fuel
• tax credits
• conoco
• chevron
• shell
• exxon
• mobil
• bp
• political animation
• political cartoons
• mark fiore

[wolfthewulfman]

If the Republican Party actually practiced the "libertarian" ideals it's been preaching lately, government oil subsidies would be the first thing to go.

[615Deathdealer]

Fuck oil, it hurts our planet and costs us some much fucking money

[cpuwrite]

You know, I once heard that some wanker from Microsoft said that Linux was "Un-American." I promptly re-christened every linux machine in my possession, naming each one after a communist, or terrorist leader. I'm writing this comment on Yassir (which tells you something about how long ago this was), though Yassir has a pop-out hard drive and can run Windows when it has to. We NEED to show these clowns a little ATTITUDE!

[cpuwrite]

@wolfthewulfman Repubs don't just parrot phony Libertarian arguments lately. A lot of it derives from the writings of Ludwig Von Misses and the Austrian school of Economics. Despite the fact that these have been THOROUGHLY debunked, we still have Libertarian think tanks like the CATO institute and the Von Misses institute (misses.org) that trumpet their "triumphs." It's hard to get a word in edgewise. This is what happens when you've got the Koch brothers funding you.

[Kidcosmosuno]

Go Green!!!

[skaterboyof2009]

it sounded like

"... and the home of the gay"

i was like- "WHAT!"

[ferky12]

@eefree89 You do realize that we're paying he oil companies to drill for oil at the level it was when oil was $20 a barrel and it's now $80 dollars a barrel.

[ComradeMr]

We aren't just a Plutocracy; we are a Plutarchy(a mix of Oligarchy and Plutocracy)

[eefree89]

Though we'd all love for those subsidies to go away, at the present moment it's unrealistic without serious consequences for other programs the Democrats love (i.e. Medicare, Medicaid, the EPA). I'm really just pissed off at the actions of the Republicans on climate change; though they claim that their policy is a realistic "all-of-the above," in practice, it's always deny, deny, deny.

[goog2k]

JEEZ, the Tea Party/Republicans are only giving $4,000,000,000 a year in tax subsidies to the Oil Industry.

Look what they get in return from BP, et al - X $MILLIONS in secret campaign contributions.

That's how America works now. Predatory corporations get deregulation, tax subsidies, short term profits & BIG BONUSES!

Politicians each get $Millions in secret campaign contributions & perks.

"Of the corporations, by the corporations, and for the corporations."

It's the new American Plutocracy.

[GarlicPudding]

"Now sing along, you traitorous f***s!" XD

[dancthegr]

@wolfthewulfman the two faced ideology of the republicans is a strange thing really but then republicans are bank rolled on oil