Big Energy, part 2

Big Energy, part 2

from things worse than nuclear power by Carolinehttp://thingsworsethannuclearpower.blogspot.com/2012/10/big-energy-part-2.html

In the spirit of the national debate and elections, this is the second of three posts covering national funding, subsidies, loans for energy, and energy lobbying.  See part 1, covering historical subsidies and the loan programs, here.

A month ago in "The Energy Subsidy Tally", the Wall Street Journal analyzed a comprehensive EIA report released last year which includes detailed analysis of every type of direct federal financial interventions and subsidies in energy.  Yes, this even includes a breakdown on research dollars. Another great analysis of the breakdown can be found here (and especially in the comments section).  CNN Money estimated a couple weeks ago that $50 Billion of the stimulus funds went to non-nuclear "green" energy; but how much of federal spending and subsidies went to each energy type?

Here is the breakdown:

We see once again that nuclear energy receives the least support of the main energy providers.  Next post, we will examine lobbying dollars-- the most taxing (ha) analysis we have performed yet.