Colorado oil and gas wells can’t fund their own cleanup. Taxpayers may foot the bill | A Carbon Tracker report shows the cost to safely shut down low-producing wells is $3bn more than what they earn
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These are the same companies who got massive tax payer funded subsidies: So much for The Free Market I guess.
Privatized profits and socialized losses are such bullshit.
They sure are, it's almost like the free market is a made up fantasy that does not exist today (if it ever existed at all).
Its free market when a corpo fucks you...
That's about it