Oil subsidies

Irrational Exemption: Tar sands pipeline subsidies and why they must end

For the past decade imports of tar sands crude oil or bitumen have been increasing.

Geographic Coverage: 
USA
Tags: 
pipelines
Keystone XL Pipeline
Oil subsidies
tar sands
Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund
...

Refinery subsidies linked to the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline

The Keystone XL tar sands pipeline project, like all oil industry projects, benefits from substantial taxpayer subsidies.  Some, like reduced property taxes, are directed at the pipeline itsel

Geographic Coverage: 
USA
Texas
Tags: 
Texas
Oil subsidies
Keystone XL Pipeline
Valero
Total
Motiva
expensing
section 179C
...

August Oil Subsidy Roundup

Like so many attempts to strip away senseless subsidies before it, the most recent Congressional push to eliminate at least a handful of expensive subsidies to the oil and gas industry was blocked

...

New report quantifies subsidies to oil and gas

With pressure building in Congress to strip out at least the most obvious subsidies to oil and gas, Taxyapers for Common Sense has released a new http://taxpayer.net/user_uploads/file/Ener

...

Subsidy Gusher: Taxpayers Stuck with Massive Subsidies While Oil and Gas Profits Soar

During World War I, U.S. taxpayers provided the oil and gas industry with its first federal tax b ...

ExxonMobil, offshore leasing and deficit reduction

A recent post by Ken Cohen, head PR guy at ExxonMobil, laments the temporary shut-down of offshore oil and gas drilling and its impact on all of us -- not them, but us, through lower federal taxes,

...

Oil Drillers Gain Billions from 'Immoral' Tax Break

The two largest offshore drilling companies in the world, Transocation and Noble Corporation, are ...

Carbon pricing and the little issue of paying for roads

For years Armin Wagner and his team have toiled to pull together a consistent set of motor fuel prices from around the world.  Though the wo

...

Syndicate content

Copyright 2012 Earth Track