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"Big Oil" at the Public Trough: An Examination of Petroleum Subsidies.

Ronald Sutherland for the Cato Institute, February 2001. Cato does good work advocating for subsidy reform, with the fairly glaring exception of anything having to do with petroleum. Perhaps the organization's heavy reliance on funding from Koch Industries constrains free expression here. For starters, Sutherland's paper would have benefited from some peer review, and from the use of more realistic subsidy values for oil.

Corporate Income Taxes in the Bush Years.

Robert S. McIntyre and T.D. Coo Nyugen, Citizens for Tax Justice. The latest of a series of detailed assessments of the actual taxes paid by major US corporations and corporate sectors, and the tax breaks that allow them to dramatically reduce their federal tax liabilities. Energy is normally a big beneficiary of these tax breaks, and pays a low effective tax rate relative to other sectors. See also Citizens for Tax Justices Assessments Of Corporate Taxes 2000 and 1996.

Removing Energy Subsidies in Developing and Transition Economies.

Matthew Saunders and Karen Schneider. Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics. June 2000. Australia is only one case in this international overview of problems with subsidies. AUSTRALIA, CANADA, UNITED STATES, JAPAN, EUROPEAN UNION, FORMER SOVIET UNION, EASTERN EUROPE, CHINA, INDONESIA, KOREA, THAILAND, INDIA, SOUTH AFRICA, MIDDLE EAST, MEXICO, ARGENTINA.