All posts in subsidies


Eliminating tax subsidies for oil companies

May 16, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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<!--break--> President Obama’s 2011 budget proposes to eliminate nine different tax expenditures that primarily benefit oil and gas companies. Cutting these special tax deductions, preferences, and credits would save the government about $45 billion over the next 10 years.  CAP’s Sima Gandhi has the story in this repost: CAP... [read more]

No More Renewable Energy Incentives

April 27, 2010 by Christopher Williams
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<!--break--> First, don’t get all upset! I admit, I just wrote this title to rope you in and peak your interest because I’m assuming you think that renewable energy is awesome and needs some incentives to get the industry kick started and to decrease the learning curve, test out new technologies yadda yadda yadda. I agree with... [read more]

Subsidies: You pays your money and you takes your choice

April 15, 2010 by GilFriend
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<!--break--> As you know, I think and speak a lot about subsidies, and their impacts in market distortion as well as environmental & social damage. Data unfortunately is hard to come by, so please let me know any good sources you know of. Two suggested to me today: Earthtrack, and the Global Subsidies Initiative which says (in... [read more]

America’s hidden power bill - Examining federal energy tax expenditures

April 14, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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<!--break--> Center for American Progress’s Richard W. Caperton and Sima J. Gandhi have put together an excellent report on the remarkable waste of taxpayer’s dollars on perverse subsidies for the profitable fossil fuel industry. I am reposting the executive summary: The most important day of the year for the many energy companies... [read more]

Clean Energy, Guaranteed: Why Nuclear Energy Is Worth the Cost

March 29, 2010 by Will Marshall
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Gasoline from Sugar

March 26, 2010 by Geoffrey Styles
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<!--break--> It's ironic that with all the current hoopla about various alternative fuels and the electrification of personal cars--hybrids and several kinds of plug-in electric vehicles--it turns out that some of the most promising advanced energy technologies under development are designed to produce more of the same fuels that have... [read more]

Think Renewables Need Huge Subsidies? Federal Energy Subsidies Visualized

March 8, 2010 by Tim Hurst
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<!--break--> Source: Environmental Law Institute One of the most persistent arguments coming from those who oppose renewable energy subsidies is that they could never stand on their own without government intervention and that we should let the market decide which electricity source is best. A complete analysis of the problems with... [read more]

EVs and Energy Density

January 19, 2010 by Geoffrey Styles
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<!--break--> If the new vehicles on display at this year's Detroit Auto Show have you wondering whether 2010 might be the Year of the Electric Car, you're not alone. GM's Volt plug-in hybrid is due out this fall, and purely-electric options like Nissan's Leaf aren't far behind. The global auto industry is investing billions of dollars... [read more]

The solar panels that pay for themselves…

November 10, 2009 by Michael Giberson
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<!--break--> From the Texas Energy and Environment Blog, reports that in New Mexico “solar panels on homes can take as little as seven years to pay for themselves in energy savings.”  The post continues: That’s faster than Texas, where even in the best economic case, solar panels take at least a decade to pay for themselves. New... [read more]

Setting Ethanol Free

October 7, 2009 by Geoffrey Styles
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<!--break--> The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently issued its report assessing the impact of the production and use of biofuels in the US. Among its recommendations was a call for the Congress to reassess whether corn ethanol still needs the support of a $0.45 per gallon blenders' credit, when its use by refiners and... [read more]

G20 Falls Short on Environmental Issues

September 28, 2009 by Tim Hurst
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<!--break--> [Editor's note: Instead of recording a post-G20 'Gang of Four' podcast, Earth and Industry's David Wescott, also of It's Not a Lecture, spurred his colleagues to write a short reaction to this week's G20 meeting in Pittsburgh. Despite his prodding, however, his colleagues fell short. -TH] The G20 didn’t focus nearly the... [read more]

Misguided Incentives

September 25, 2009 by Geoffrey Styles
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<!--break--> Today's Wall St. Journal includes an interesting article on the emerging controversy concerning Germany's subsidies for solar power and their unintended consequences for that country's solar industry. It seems that solar incentives there have been so generous that they have discouraged German solar manufacturers from... [read more]