I was open-minded when I began to read this article, not being particularly fond of oil companies in general because of their lack of consideration for the long term. However, what is used in the above article to define subsidies is very debatable and borders on misleading. Apparently, the article/Greenpeace cannot point at an actual example where the government gives money to oil companies. Until the clean-energy community abandons hype and hysteria and works with real facts, they are only going to make the move to alternatives more difficult because they taint the overall credibility of the alternative-energy community.