Never mind that Exxon has yet to pay the Valdez victims. http://www.nader.org/index.php?/archives/476-Exxon-Still-Hasnt-Paid-Valdez-Victims.html
I say bunkum because there are NO scientific studies proving that the Exxon Valdez was actually responsible in the first place.

So what’s a little oil in Alaska anyway, right? It’s a big place and it had to have an oil spill sometime! And you know they had hearings in Washington for our officials to testify and none of them had a bad word to say about Exxon, so that MUST make Exxon a great company, right? And there’s not one scientific study that proves that our officials are the least bit influenced by all that oil lobbying money, jobs for their relatives, or the revolving door policy.

It’s been PROVEN time and time again that you can count on everything our government officials say. They never lie! The FDA, FBI, NASA, the Federal Reserve, the big banks and all them other government agencies are great!

Why look, the Defense Dept. Gave $431 Billion to Contractors After They were Convicted of Fraud. Now you can’t beat that!

Just ignore that movie “GASLAND” and the burning tap water that it shows. Why there are no scientific studies to show that water is really on fire. You can’t believe your own eyes without a good scientific study, paid for by the oil companies, to first tell you what you are seeing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U01EK76Sy4A

And there will never be such a study because we are keeping the list of carcinogenic chemicals used in fracking a secret. So how can you study a secret? Right?

The oil companies are poor and poverty stricken because they take care of the people first! Exxon paid no income tax because it only made a mere 45.2 billion in profit. http://www.citybeat.com/cincinnati/blog-1262-ge_exxon_paid_no_taxes_in_09.html

So there ya have it!

The best way to have a level playing field is to stop all subsidizing. Industries should be able to stand on their own and not be carried on the backs of the people. The problem with subsidizing is amply demonstrated in the responses here. It creates special favors that pit one citizen against another. As in, “Hey my work is just as important as anyone else’s so I should get the subsidy. See here, my industry wrote up this special report about how special we are and how we deserve special treatment and so that makes it OK! So bend over my fellow citizens while we special people take our pleasure at your expense.”

“By the way, my industry has gained the right to rape the citizens in the next state over, so what the heck is wrong with you folks in this state that you don’t want to be raped too? Don’t you realize how special my job is, how famous and important I am, and how my rights cancel out yours?”

We don’t have capitalism in this country and haven’t for a long time. Yet the uneducated idiots cry out that we should get rid of capitalism because it failed. What we have is communism, which is a type of socialism, in which some unelected government official doles out money to his favorite buddies at the expense of everyone. This is done in the form of subsidies, no bid contracts, special tax exemptions, grants, bail outs, no interest loans, price fixing by marketing boards and a list of other giveaways.

So who are these unelected government officials that they should decide what is moral and immoral, especially since they are influenced by bribes? How can that be a standard for a fair and moral decision, even in a socialist system? It isn’t. And it sure isn’t capitalism or a free market system. It always sounds good when you are the recipient of the largess, but not so wonderful when you wake up and realize that far more is being extracted from your pocket than is being put in. Plus you lose your freedom and become a slave to government, who you are now dependent upon. What a great deal, hu?

Such evasion of reality is parroting the communists who claim communism was “state capitalism” and failed because it was wasn’t theoretically pure enough.