U. S. Department of Energy. Very detailed review of many federal programs that helped to boost the nation's energy consumption. Great source of historical information on U. S. energy policy and legislation going back many decades.
Rick
Heede, Rick Morgan, and Scott Ridley. Center for Renewable Resources.
Multi-fuel review of federal subsidies in the early 1980s. Good
historical data. Posted with permission of authors.
Komanoff
Energy Associates for Greenpeace. Detailed review of historical federal
subsidies to nuclear power. Thanks to Charlie Komanoff and to
Greenpeace for permission to repost.
Jenny
Wahl for the Institute for Local Self Reliance. Overview of the
external costs of petroleum not included in the market price, including
tax breaks, oil security, and environmental and health effects.
Amy Bricker, Mark Bricoe, Blake Ethridge, Evan Harrje, and Karmen Kallio
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1/2/2009
Amy
Bricker, Mark Bricoe, Blake Ethridge, Evan Harrje, and Karmen Kallio
for the International Center for Technology Assessment. Includes
estimates for environmental and transport-related externalities.
Results not easily comparable to other U. S. studies.
Marshall Goldberg for the Renewable Energy Policy Project. July 2000 Research Report No. 11. Links to supporting data tables: A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7.
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…
National Environmental Trust.
Review of the challenges and costs of US dependence on foreign oil.
Discussion of past and present proposals to address the problem.
Though this specific bill is gone,
the report provides useful background on a variety of energy subsidies
that are either already enacted or regularly crop up in legislative
initiatives.
Annual Review of wasteful government programs across multiple sectors and the role this spending plays in the $521 billion deficit and a $7.1 trillion national debt.
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…
Mark
Kosmo, World Resources Institute. Review of subsidies to electricity,
coal, oil, and natural gas in 32 countries using primarily the
price-gap method.
Bjorn
Larsen, World Bank Publication. Larsen's empirical framework for
estimating the level of world fossil fuel subsidies and analyzing their
implications for carbon dioxide emissions.
(Table of Contents, Volume 23, Issue 6). Energy Policy, V. 23, No. 6. Full articles available only through journal publisher, but abstracts can be viewed.
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…