Oink! US Carbon Subsidies Exceed $37 Billion in 2007

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If Congress were to cut $1.4 billion a year in subsidies, as House Democrats urge, the industry would still get more than $37 billion a year from government coffers,ย four times the amount spent on the nuclear industry and six times the am spent on ethanol.

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