To stop our climate-change-driven suicide, Congress must stop allowing oil exports, end subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, and promote clean American energy.

Each American — man, woman and child — paid around $2000 last year to subsidize the fossil fuel industry, according to an analysis this year by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Worldwide, the fossil fuel industry's lobbying power has gotten it about $6 trillion a year in subsidies; America's $600 billion a year gift to the energy barons pours cash into this massively profitable industry at the rate of a million dollars a minute.

We're funding our own suicide: the world's largest fossil fuel companies right now have drilling and mining operations underway that, if completed, will push the world well past a catastrophic 2.7 degrees Celsius, the level that some scientists estimate could lead to a dinosaur-level extinction.

And while the fossil fuel companies all give lip service to becoming "carbon neutral" they're entirely talking about their own operations, not the fossil fuel products their operations are producing.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "Why are Americans Subsidizing Our Own Extinction?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "As US oil booms, Congress lifts 40-year oil export ban" by Charlotte Raab.

Article: "Solar panels could be on all Europe's public buildings by 2025, in phase out of Russian fossil fuels" by Maeve Campbell.

Article: "Still Not Getting Energy Prices Right: A Global and Country Update of Fossil Fuel Subsidies" by Ian Parry, Simon Black, Nate Vernon.

Article: "Democrats and Lobbyists Gird for Battle Over Far-Reaching Tax Increases" by Jonathan Weisman, Alan Rappeport and Jim Tankersley.

Article: "Average WTI price needed for U.S. oil and gas producers to stay profitable by well status in selected U.S. oilfields as of 2022" by Statista.

Article: "Fossil fuel industry gets subsidies of $11m a minute, IMF finds" by Damian Carrington.

Article: "Revealed: the 'carbon bombs' set to trigger catastrophic climate breakdown" by Damian Carrington and Matthew Taylor.

Article: "QAnon followers believed leader's decree that utilities are free — now their power is being shut off" by Travis Gettys.

Article: "Sovereign immunity" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Going Galt" by Edward Hudgins.

Book: "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand.

Tweet: "Want proof that gas price gouging is underway? Compare oil and gas prices over the last 20 years.
Painfully obvious that #PriceGouging is underway
Oil is WELL BELOW the pre-Great Recession peak and WELL BELOW Obama's first term yet #gasprices are at record highs! [graph]" by PapaPear.

Article: "Question of the Day - If Elon Musk Lets Trump Back on Twitter - How Will It Affect America?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "We're in danger of losing our democracy. Most Americans are in denial." by Max Boot.

Tweet: "A simple question for Justice Clarence Thomas.
Why are you such a hater?" by Hakeem Jeffries.

Site: Insurrection Index.

Article: "Raimondo fails to reassure a rattled solar industry" by Maxine Joselow.

Article: "Solar Industry 'Frozen' as Biden Administration Investigates China" by David Gelles.

Article: "The Amazon Rainforest Can't Survive 4 More Years Of Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro" by Travis Waldron.

Article: "2021 Oregon wildfires" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Allow Me to Retort' with Elie Mystal: podcast and transcript" (destrocracy, jestrocracy) by Chris Hayes.

Article: "Electoral Count Act of 1887" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What the Electoral Count Act is -- and why some argue reforming it can protect future elections" by Paul LeBlanc.

Book: "Walking Your Blues Away: How to Heal the Mind and Create Emotional Well-Being" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "E85" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: How the radical right hijacked religion and become the biggest threat to individual rights & democracy
- Frank Schaeffer, Author of numerous books...his latest: "Fall in Love, Have Children, Stay Put, Save the Planet, Be Happy" / Frank Schaeffer is a survivor of an evangelical/fundamentalist childhood...

Video: Billy Graham.

Video: How Should We Then Live | Season 1 | Episode 1 | The Roman Age | Francis Schaeffer | Edith Schaeffer.

Video: Whatever Happened To The Human Race? | Episode 1 | Abortion of the Human Race (2010).

Article: "C. Everett Koop" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Roe v. Wade" (1973).

Article: "W. A. Criswell" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jerry Falwell" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Paul Weyrich" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Burwell v. Hobby Lobby".

Article: "Book of Leviticus" by Wikipedia.

Law: "13th Amendment", December 6, 1865. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.".

Case: "United States v. Kozminski" (1988) (involuntary servitude).

The Insidious Way Women Will Be tracked on Abortion...

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