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Originally Posted by Byte1
The fossil fuel industry provides billions in tax revenue, not to mention what the gov reaps from taxing thousands of oil employees and the states' taxes on a gallon of fuel.
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As far as tax revenue to the US (or any country for that matter), many more JOBS are being created in the clean energy field. That is the trend for the future. The newest generation of nuclear power plants has safety advantages and better waste fuel elimination over older nuclear plants. Clean energy innovation is producing lower-cost energy and cleaner air and water. There are better uses for OIL than just burning it up into the atmosphere. - such as for medicines and many other products.
So, for jobs, cleaner air, and medicines, as much oil as possible should be left in the ground. To accomplish that, EVs and other zero-pollution engines should be used in automotive applications as much as possible with government incentives. The main goal is to reduce the rate of increase of climate change by about 2050. People today owe that to our future generations.