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This idea has widespread bipartisan support: Obama calls to repeal oil subsidies just about every year, and Republicans, Independents, and Democrats alike support ending the handouts — but the unholy alliance between industry execs and the politicians they finance keeps them in place.

Because the problem with oil subsidies, is they just don't die.

Even Republicans support ending oil subsidies by a 2 - to - 1 margin.

re 461, just like there's no need for oil subsidies (tax breaks too!)

The dip in oil subsidies in 2016, and the higher share of electricity, reflect some short - term price developments but also reveal a new set of challenges to remove them.

Riyadh made the bold call of slashing domestic oil subsidies at the end of December, leading to prices rising by 50 % in some cases.

If you want to introduce a new policy, lets say cutting down oil subsidies, you should have some idea of what the social flexibility is of the people who will be affected.

Oil subsidies accounted for 44 percent of total consumption subsidies (about $ 145 billion), followed by electricity subsidies of just over $ 100 billion.

Today, Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii unveiled the FAIR Energy Policy Act, which would end a subset of existing U.S. federal oil subsidies within four years.

With world oil subsidies in the billions, and completely unsustainable, it is rather strange to suggest wind turbines «can not survive without subsidies».

Oil subsidies make up over half of the total fossil fuel consumption subsidies, while electricity makes up 24 percent, natural gas 22 percent and coal 0.4 percent.

In my view (and I've seen energy and environment close up in every election since Pres. Nixon's rather revolutionary Environmental Message of the early 1970s == too bad there was that third rate break in to spoil his record) the tests for all the candidates will be whether they will substiture oil taxes for off - oil subsidies, carbon taxes to level the whole field, and then and only then decide where we need to push or pull a bit (like with the fuel economy standards, long over due, and boy will they take a long time to arrive in full force.)

The 112th Congress made a record - breaking 191 votes to kill air pollution rules, protect Big Oil subsidies, and block efforts to fight climate change, earning it this dubious distinction:

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

We need to end oil subsidies now.

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North Korea might have been planning to nuke us, but now their unusual leader seems to be more interested in getting lucrative oil subsidies and getting a large screen flat panel 1080p HDTV manufactured in South Korea on which he can watch DVD movies and TV shows from Japan, Hollywood, Bollywood and Europe.

Obama clearly picked up on bipartisan interest in eliminating distorting energy subsidies, but sadly targeted only oil subsidies in seeking the billions he wants for research and innovation.

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.

$ 8 billion) over first ten years for deficit reductionObeys PAYGO; Starting in 2026, 25 % of auction revenues for deficit reductionFuels and TransportationIncrease biofuels to 60 million gallons by 2030, low - carbon fuel standard of 10 % by 2010, 1 million plug» in hybrid cars by 2025, raise fuel economy standards, smart growth funding, end oil subsidies, promote natural gas drilling, enhanced oil recoverySmart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, raise fuel economy standards $ 7 billion a year for smart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, natural gas vehicles, raise fuel economy standards; offshore drilling with revenue sharing and oil spill veto, natural gas fracking disclosureCost ContainmentInternational offsetsOffset pool, banking and borrowing flexibility, soft price collar using permit reserve auction at $ 28 per ton going to 60 % above three - year - average market price» Hard» price collar between $ 12 and $ 25 per ton, floor increases at 3 % + CPI, ceiling at 5 % + CPI, plus permit reserve auction, offsets like W - MClean Air Act And StatesNot discussedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade suspended until 2017, EPA to set stationary source performance standards in 2016, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade pre-empted, establishes coal - fired plant performance standards, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedInternational CompetitivenessTax incentives for domestic auto industryFree allowances for trade - exposed industries, 2020 carbon tariff on importsCarbon tariff on importsReferences: Barack Obama, 2007; Barack Obama, 8/3/08; Pew Center, 6/26/09; leaked drafts of American Power Act, 5/11/10.

Increase biofuels to 60 million gallons by 2030, low - carbon fuel standard of 10 % by 2010, 1 million plug ‐ in hybrid cars by 2025, raise fuel economy standards, smart growth funding, end oil subsidies, promote natural gas drilling, enhanced oil recovery

NEWS - REVIEW FILE PHOTO Greg Blass handling home heating oil subsidies as Department of Social Services commissioner in 2010.

Marketers disclosed that they owe their foreign suppliers in excess of $ 1.29 billion, even as the marketers were paid only N413 billion in December 2015 for oil subsidies.

Set up groups and opt - ins for your top campaigns or issues areas (one group might be «medicare» for example «or climate change» or «oil subsidies») and then send most email on those campaigns to people who've taken an action on that campaign in the last 3 months.

Republicans are fighting for billionaires & millionaires, oil subsidies for the oil companies, tax loopholes for corporations, taxbreaks for companies that send American jobs overseas.

In order to replace the Venezuelan oil subsidies deal, known as Petrocaribe, Mexico would have to supply Cuba with 55,000 barrels per day and another 39,000 barrels per day to other Petrocaribe nations in the Caribbean and Central America.

«The Presidency has also failed to offer explanations on the alleged involvement of its officials in various sneaky oil subsidy deals as well as reported diversion of N1.1 trillion worth of crude last year to service APC interests.

Nigeria's civil rights community has told President Goodluck Jonathan to shelve the proposed removal of oil subsidy.

The Senate on Thursday said it would not take any decision on oil subsidy that would aggravate the suffering of Nigerians.

A nationwide Occupy Nigeria protest, over oil subsidy removal, had paralysed the country.

The Health Management Organizations (HMOs) are very powerful, rich and well connected.They are the new mafias, though they hate being likened to the oil subsidy cartel, that...

Despite the public outcry against the proposed removal of oil subsidy as from next year, Niger State Governor Babangida Aliyu yesterday wooed traditional rulers to support...

Despite the public outcry against the proposed removal of oil subsidy as from next year, Niger State Governor Babangida Aliyu yesterday wooed traditional rulers to support the Federal Government's plan.

He said instead of putting more burden on the people, the APC government should come out clear on the «sleaze in the oil sector» under its watch, particularly the «shady oil subsidy payouts and illegal lifting of N1.1 trn worth of crude, using unregistered companies.»

Detectives at the Police headquarters investigating the $ 620, 000 oil subsidy bribe money collected by erstwhile chairman of the House of Representatives Subsidy Probe Panel, Hon....

In addition to the «kitchen sink» claim that all defense spending is an «oil subsidy», I've seen references to studies that claim the interstate highway system is an «fossil fuel subsidy».

Not exact matches

Fossil - fuel subsidies drain government budgets, throwing up a fiscal wall that blocks state support for clean energy while protecting the interests of the oil industry.

Responding to Tory charges that the NDP's proposed cap - and - trade system would wind up raising gas prices by 10 cents per litre, Jack Layton blamed Stephen Harper «s subsidies to big oil companies and support for the harmonized sales tax in Ontario for higher gas prices.

Between 1985 and 2000, the European Court of Auditors reported that 87 percent of misappropriated EU subsidies for olive oil bottlers had gone to Italy.

It also gradually phased out subsidies that kept retail fuel cheap, causing prices at the pump to climb by an average of nearly 25 % since 2014, even though global oil prices fell by as much as 75 % during that period.

In Indonesia, which ended gasoline subsidies in 2015 and lowered the diesel subsidy to 500 rupiah (3.6 U.S. cents) per litre in 2016, retail prices also haven't risen by as much as the price of crude oil.

Trump's closest energy advisers, like Carl Icahn and Harold Hamm (who each own oil companies), have been calling for an end to subsidies.

His rivals play off it on the campaign trail, with the NDP's Thomas Mulcair bemoaning billions in subsidies to the fossil fuel sector and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau saying Harper «bet everything on the price of oil.»

In fact, it is «Empty Promises: G20 subsidies to oil, gas and coal production.»

A version of this article appears in print on July 4, 2010, on Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: As Oil Industry Fights a Tax, It Reaps Subsidies.

But thanks to the subsidy they get from Canada, refineries in Cushing often enjoy refinery margins, or crack spreads as they're known in the industry, that have been as much as five times what refineries on the Gulf Coast, which have to pay full world oil prices for their feedstock, operate with.

Mulcair's argument then becomes essentially that in addition to costing taxpayers and the environment, oil and gas subsidies are also undermining other export industries via the Dutch - Currency - Phenomenon - That - Shall - Not - Be-Named.

But there's also a new element that Thomas Mulcair has added to this conversation: subsidies to the oil and gas industry — mostly in the form of allowing the industry to externalize environmental costs.