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Guess How Billionaire Global Warming Activist And DNC Supporter Tom Steyer Made His Massive Fortune?
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Guess How Billionaire Global Warming Activist And DNC Supporter Tom Steyer Made His Massive Fortune?

7,780 Shares By Emily Hulsey 2 days ago



Billionaire activist Tom Steyer is a complex man:

#1 – In 2010, he joined Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and 37 other billionaires in pledging to give away half of his fortune.
#2 – He is now one of the Democratic party’s biggest donors and was a major supporter of both Hillary Clinton’s and Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns.
#3 – He has been called the “Green Superman,” pledging hundreds of millions of dollars to support climate change legislation and prevent climate change deniers from winning office.
#4 – He made most of his fortune off of foreign coal investments, the very energy source he now seeks to take down.
Did you catch that? He got rich by investing in “non-eco-friendly” energy sources, and now he’s spending that money to support policies that would cripple those industries.
To his credit, Steyer fully acknowledges his past and the source of his wealth, even citing it as the reason for pumping so much into environmentalism now; he’s seen the “error of his ways,” so to speak, and is doing what he can to, in his eyes, make up for it.
But according to CNN, Steyer has not done a full 180 degree turn and still profits from investments in “dirty” energy sources, though his adviser says he intends to give them up:

Though Steyer divested from some of what he calls the dirtier fuels – coal and tar sands – his portfolio is, as of today, still not free of these investments. He has continued to make money off these unclean energies, while decrying them, and working to defeat politicians he sees as insufficiently committed to the cause.

The bottom line is that Harry Reid can whine about the Koch brothers all he wants, but the Democratic party is not short on its own share of insanely rich supporters. On top of that, one of Democrats’ top backers got rich off of the very industries that they decry.
Imagine the field day Reid would have with that if the situation were reversed…


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