Every year, the federal government provides billions of dollars in subsidies/tax breaks to the oil industry. Why should such a profitable, environment-killing industry receive this money? In 2012, the oil industry raked in over $120 billion in profits. The time is now for the government to stop giving money to the oil industry!
Rather than giving these breaks to the oil industry, we ask the government to give full-fledged support to alternative energy. REAL alternative energy. Natural gas is not going to cut it. It has also been proven that ethanol damages the environment just as much as the production of crude oil.
Sources such as solar, wind, etc. should receive this support that the government currently gives to the oil industry.