Optional@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 11 months agoColorado oil and gas wells can’t fund their own cleanup. Taxpayers may foot the bill | A Carbon Tracker report shows the cost to safely shut down low-producing wells is $3bn more than what they earnwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square15linkfedilinkarrow-up1147file-textcross-posted to: collapse@lemm.eeclimate@slrpnk.net
arrow-up1147external-linkColorado oil and gas wells can’t fund their own cleanup. Taxpayers may foot the bill | A Carbon Tracker report shows the cost to safely shut down low-producing wells is $3bn more than what they earnwww.theguardian.comOptional@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 11 months agomessage-square15linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: collapse@lemm.eeclimate@slrpnk.net
minus-square_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up42·edit-211 months agoThese are the same companies who got massive tax payer funded subsidies: So much for The Free Market I guess.
minus-squarefriend_of_satan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·11 months agoPrivatized profits and socialized losses are such bullshit.
minus-square_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·11 months agoThey sure are, it’s almost like the free market is a made up fantasy that does not exist today (if it ever existed at all).
These are the same companies who got massive tax payer funded subsidies: So much for The Free Market I guess.
Privatized profits and socialized losses are such bullshit.
They sure are, it’s almost like the free market is a made up fantasy that does not exist today (if it ever existed at all).