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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

The EIA Says Now is the Time to Drop Fossil Fuel Subsidies

The EIA Says Now is the Time to Drop Fossil Fuel Subsidies

With domestic oil production soaring, and petroleum and coal sector profits rising at a rapid clip, now seems the right time to cut back on tax expenditures related to oil extraction and processing.Figure 1: US oil field production in thousands of barrels/day (blue, left axis), and profits in the petroleum and coal sector according to NIPA, in billions SAAR (red, right axis). Source: Energy Information Administration, BEA.The Administration has proposed elimination of several tax expenditures. According to OMB, this would yield ten year savings…Read more...http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-EIA-Says-Now-is-the-Time-to-Drop-Fossil-Fuel-Subsidies.html

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