Sentences with phrase «how oil subsidies»

It is unclear to me how oil subsidies and lack of tax breaks for an upstart renewable energy industry will help further these goals.

It assessed how oil subsidies could influence investor decision - making and found that the impact of subsidies on oil production (and associated emissions) in the U.S. was potentially very high.

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Their critics say their stance, however well intentioned, will produce the real delays, given how much can be done now simply by cutting energy waste with tools already on the shelf — ranging from strengthening efficiency standards to eliminating billions of dollars in persistent fossil - fuel subsidies that continue to make coal and oil much cheaper than they really are when all their hidden costs are revealed.

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Besides the Obama administration's antagonism to oil and natural gas production, this revolution also did not happen because Congress passed an «energy» bill directing how oil was to be produced or providing targeted subsidies.

To address this threat to competitiveness, the Leach panel recommended that some of the revenues collected through the carbon tax — at least $ 2.5 billion, by some estimates — be returned to big emitters by way of a subsidy tied to how much they produce, whether it's barrels of oil or kilowatts of electricity or some other sector - specific output.