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
Posted on:
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…
Commission
of the European Communities, Commission Staff Working Paper. Wide
ranging and detailed analysis of public support to various energy
sources. Assembled from existing sources, so some gaps are likely. Is
an update in the works?
Antony
Froggatt for Greenpeace. Reviews environmental effects of EU energy
support programs and identifies actions the EU and member states should
take to reduce the environmental and fiscal impacts of these programs.
EUROPEAN UNION MEMBER STATES
Matthew Savage with Paul Baruya and Jack Cunningham
Posted on:
12/31/2008
Matthew
Savage with Paul Baruya and Jack Cunningham for the European
Environment Agency. Reviews subsidy types, estimation techniques, and
benefits of reform within the EU context.
David Malin Roodman. Worldwatch Institute. Very useful history of perverse
subsidies and delineation of the political factors that make them so
difficult to reform. (You can purchase full paper).
Douglas F. Barnes and Jonathan
Halpern, The World Bank. Paper analyzes the difficulties in trying to
extend basic energy services to poor or remote populations in an
efficient manner. They note many examples where substantial funding has
subsidized wealthier members of the population rather than the…
