>> >I need to find a source that will itemize federal subsidies for >the oil >> >industry. I don't care whether they are direct or indirect, I want >to be >> >able to throw numbers that are supportable. > >Wow, the Greenpeace report is downright exhaustive! > >http://www.greenpeace.org/~climate/oil/fdsub.html
It's been out there for awhile too. I wish folks would put dates on web-documents as a matter of routine. Its age is not a problem, but I think it's important for readers to get a context right when they visit a page. Another thing that comes to mind about oil subsidies that I want to pass on is that one or more of the government energy-related departments used to come up with some obscure studies of the vulnerability of the American Economy to an Oil "Price Shock". This is not a front-end subsidy, so I don't think it qualifies precisely in this conversation, but as with Tax Breaks, I think it's arguably related. I used to carry a quote on my website that I stole from another site which claimed to get it from Oak Ridge National Labs, claiming that an oil price shock was estimated to do $500,000,000,000 in damage to the American Economy, under some time and price parameters that I don't remember. I took it down because I couldn't verify it precisely, but in trying to do so I did see some similar-looking quotes which made me think it was probably a real quote. For example, if you go to energy.gov (the DOE site) and-or NREL.gov, or the EIA, etc. somewhere in a search of one of those sites the info might still be there. It was an attempt to estimate the vulnerability of the American GDP and such to our Oil Dependencies, and to estimate the consequences of messing with the price or availability of oil to the American Economy. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
