In Ironic Christmas Card, Koch-Backed Group Labels Itself Ebenezer Scrooge

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/12/18/1350551/in-ironic-christmas-card-koch-backed-group-labels-itself-ebenezer-scrooge/

In Ironic Christmas Card, Koch-Backed Group Labels Itself Ebenezer Scrooge

By Stephen Lacey on Dec 18, 2012 at 9:38 am

Americans for Prosperity, the Tea Party organization founded and partly funded by the oil billionaire Koch Brothers, is leading the charge against federal renewable energy investments — even while vigorously defending permanent tax subsidies for the oil and gas industry.

So AFP’s mock Christmas card featuring the stingy, cranky Ebenezer Scrooge disparaging wind tax credits illustrates the organization’s stance perfectly:

While voters overwhelmingly back government support of renewable energy and a transition away from fossil fuels, Americans for Prosperity sits scowling in the dark, attempting to protect the fossil fuel industry’s subsidies under the guise of the “free market.”

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In Ironic Christmas Card, Koch-Backed Group Labels Itself Ebenezer Scrooge (Original post)	bananas	Dec 2012	OP
They probably think A Christmas Carol is a tragedy.	tanyev	Dec 2012	#1
ONLY IS IN THE SOUTH DO THEY THINK	ROBROX	Dec 2012	#2
If I Had My Number... I'd Go Fishing	Tace	Dec 2012	#3
For the most part you don't get that kind of money without being obsessed by making money	Fumesucker	Dec 2012	#4
Seems Crazy	Tace	Dec 2012	#5

Response to bananas (Original post)

Fri Dec 21, 2012, 09:12 AM

tanyev (22,089 posts)

1. They probably think A Christmas Carol is a tragedy.

Heroic codger succumbs to the temptation of mawkish sentiment.

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Response to bananas (Original post)

Fri Dec 21, 2012, 04:01 PM

ROBROX (392 posts)

2. ONLY IS IN THE SOUTH DO THEY THINK

This would be a good idea. This is so wrong is stinks as I read it. The old fossils are still trying to spread their EVIL when they could just BANK their money and die.

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Response to ROBROX (Reply #2)

Sat Dec 22, 2012, 05:46 PM

Tace (5,909 posts)

3. If I Had My Number... I'd Go Fishing

If I had about $10 million, I could spend spend about $250,000/year and not even spend the original sum.

I sure as hell wouldn't waste any time trying to make more money.

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Response to Tace (Reply #3)

Sat Dec 22, 2012, 05:55 PM

Fumesucker (31,584 posts)

4. For the most part you don't get that kind of money without being obsessed by making money

I suspect most of them can't stop even if they wanted to, it's what they know and who they are.

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Response to Fumesucker (Reply #4)

Sat Dec 22, 2012, 08:24 PM

Tace (5,909 posts)

5. Seems Crazy

Ferengi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferengi

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