The Giant

CAPITAL GAIN SCREEN PRINT


The U.S. government gives approximately $70 billion in tax breaks and subsidies to the highly profitable oil and gas industries. Green Energy companies only received 12 billion in subsidy because they don’t have the deep pockets of fossil fuel companies. The need to fund new, renewable technologies, should be obvious when the rapidly depleting oil and gas sources become more difficult and dangerous to extract each passing day. The only reason the government subsidies are so disproportionate is because of the massive power the dying oil and gas industry still has.

The Oil & Gas industry, which includes multi-national and independent oil and gas producers and refiners, natural gas pipeline companies, gasoline service stations and fuel oil dealers, has long enjoyed a history of strong influence in Washington. Individuals and political action committees affiliated with oil and gas companies have donated $238.7 million to candidates and parties since the 1990 election cycle, 75 percent of which has gone to Republicans.

Check out this article on the political influence of the Oil & Gas industry.

and these other articles on Corporate Welfare:

http://www.thinkbynumbers.org

http://www.truth-out.org

Thanks for caring.

Profits from this print will got to Rootstrikers and Represent.US to push campaign finance reform and end legal bribery of politicians.

-Shepard

18 x 24 inch screen print on cream speckle tone paper. Signed and numbered edition of 450. $55. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Rootstrikers and Represent.US. Limit 1 per person/household.

Release date: Tuesday November 10, 2015 at 10am in the Store.

I know, everyone is tired of gas and oil but I really like this one.

Anti-oil messages printed with petroleum-based inks are akin to writing, "Stop the Killing" in blood.

I know most if not all of the forum members are done with the "big oil is bad" concept. I feel the same way but this one will look pretty killer framed up between "A Message from Our Sponsor" and "Pay Up or Shut Up". I'm going for it.

cybernigel wrote:Anti-oil messages printed with petroleum-based inks are akin to writing, "Stop the Killing" in blood.

i thought i read somewhere that waterbased inks were used on the 18x24 in prints?

I ilke this one too. but As im running out of wall space it will probally never make it to the wall. if anyone needs a poster buddy, hit me up.

vvk wrote:

cybernigel wrote:Anti-oil messages printed with petroleum-based inks are akin to writing, "Stop the Killing" in blood.

i thought i read somewhere that waterbased inks were used on the 18x24 in prints?

I ilke this one too. but As im running out of wall space it will probally never make it to the wall. if anyone needs a poster buddy, hit me up.

If I stopped when I ran out of wall space I would have been in the poster buddy space a long, long time ago. As it is I still have wall space left and enough paper to cover every square inch 3x over. #consume

jjttdw wrote:I know, everyone is tired of gas and oil but I really like this one.

Agreed, if I wasn't starting to buy a house I would be going for this for certain

theandrew13 wrote:

jjttdw wrote:I know, everyone is tired of gas and oil but I really like this one.

Agreed, if I wasn't starting to buy a house I would be going for this for certain

The problem with buying a house is furnishing the walls.
But congrats nonetheless.

I'm a big fan of Shep's straight-propaganda prints so even though O&G is getting a tad stale, I'm down.

Nice that this is dropping at a fixed time. Less time wasted on a print that will sell out quickly but will not be in huge demand.

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+1...easy

+1 looking forward to seeing this in person

Still don't know if I want to grab this one or not.

I have a bad feeling that this is being oversold.

jjttdw wrote:I have a bad feeling that this is being oversold.

Either that or the well ran dry on interest in Oil & Gas prints.

cybernigel wrote:

jjttdw wrote:I have a bad feeling that this is being oversold.

Either that or the well ran dry on interest in Oil & Gas prints.

Or the well is running dry on interest in Shepard's "subpar" prints in general..?

brintoul wrote:

cybernigel wrote:

jjttdw wrote:I have a bad feeling that this is being oversold.

Either that or the well ran dry on interest in Oil & Gas prints.

Or the well is running dry on interest in Shepard's "subpar" prints in general..?

I agree with your comment on Shep's subpar prints as of recently.
Most of this years prints have been a pass for me, except for the letterpress prints that were released.

I hope Shep gets back to creating images without any print/text on them, as i love all his stuff from 2008 and earlier.

stealthninja wrote:

brintoul wrote:

cybernigel wrote:

jjttdw wrote:I have a bad feeling that this is being oversold.

Either that or the well ran dry on interest in Oil & Gas prints.

Or the well is running dry on interest in Shepard's "subpar" prints in general..?

I agree with your comment on Shep's subpar prints as of recently.
Most of this years prints have been a pass for me, except for the letterpress prints that were released.

I hope Shep gets back to creating images without any print/text on them, as i love all his stuff from 2008 and earlier.

Let's just say it doesn't seem like the flippin' market is what it used to be... I mean, this print cost me $73 with tax/shipping. If I were silly enough to try to sell this on eBay, I'd be lucky to get 100 bucks. You take away the eBay fees, etc. and I'd make like 10 bucks on the whole thing. How people continue to "flip" some of these is beyond me.

I just got my shipping notification... Once people see the actual amount of art that Fairey put into this piece it will make alot of your walls. Lets just see what people think once they see it in person! IMO str8 to the point and will be timeless.

It's back up again if anyone is interested.

The textured paper plays well on the ink pulls

I like the paper. Wonder if all prints will be on this new paper or will vary.

rlbchef wrote:I like the paper. Wonder if all prints will be on this new paper or will vary.

the paper resembles an actual canvas texture so i would guess that this new paper is either a test for "canvas" prints and they will decide to continue using it for those specific prints or that they have already decided to use this canvas textured paper for their canvas prints and this just happens to be the first print with the new paper.

i doubt it will be used for regular prints.