Van Jones: Energy Companies ‘Subsidized’ Because Their CO2 Emissions Aren’t Taxed

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JONES: "You know what's a subsidy? When you get to pollute for free. Right now, if you're coal, if you're oil, you get to dump megatons of carbon in the atmosphere and you don't pay a penny. That's a subsidy. If you're big oil, the Pentagon makes sure you're for-profit product gets here from that Middle East. That's a subsidy. Every form of energy in the world is subsidized. The question is, do you want to subsidize the ones that will give you more jobs or more pollution? I think we have to come back to the table. This used to be bipartisan. That's the point of my book."