"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.