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Episode 4 Sources
http://youtu.be/E5Qqvmqgz2A
- Obama 3/17/2012 Subsidies weekly address
http://www.api.org/policy/tax/upload/Oil_Gas_Tax_Treatments_Not_Subsidies_April2011.pdf
- American Petroleum Institute factsheet in which they insist: “These aren’t really subsidies!”
http://www.elistore.org/Data/products/d19_07.pdf
- Environmental Law Institute report, also lots of info to support that “Yes they
are so
subsidies.”
http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0411/Schumer_Boehners_seen_the_light_on_oil_subsidies.html
- House Speaker John Boehner’s for ending subsidies!
http://thinkprogress.org/green/2012/03/02/436502/boehner-dont-cut-oil-subsidies/
- But now Boehner’s against ending subsidies, because of using incorrect info
http://democrats.senate.gov/pdfs/20110511-crs-analysis-on-gas-prices.pdf
http://www.factcheck.org/2011/05/playing-politics-with-gasoline-prices/
http://thinkprogress.org/green/2012/03/07/439938/oil-lobby-chief-jack-gerard-uses-out-of-context-finding-to-protect-oil-subsidies/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidy
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/23/us-energy-iea-renewables-idUSTRE7AM0OV20111123
- IEA statement about renewables deserving subsidies and becoming cost competitive
http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Renewable-Energy-Being-Held-Back-by-Fossil-Fuel-Subsidies-IEA.html
- IEA statement about fossil fuel subsidies holding back renewables
http://www.worldbank.org/html/fpd/esmap/energy_report2000/ch7.pdf
- World Bank Report on how best to do energy subsidies (mostly about how to best serve the needy)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/benzingainsights/2011/02/01/should-the-government-really-end-oil-subsidies/
The climate-change-denying Heritage Foundation is actually in support of no energy subsidies, period.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/12/business/energy-environment/a-cornucopia-of-help-for-renewable-energy.html?pagewanted=3&_r=1
The gold rush mentality around clean energy subsidies
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/218555--reid-blocks-amendments-to-bill-nixing-oil-tax-breaks-setting-up-thursday-vote
Republican senators trying to keep oil subsidies in spite of report showing that repeal wouldn’t affect gas prices
http://www.loc.gov/crsinfo/
Congressional Research Service is nonpartisan, authoratative, objective
http://thinkprogress.org/green/2012/03/23/450941/will-senators-stand-up-for-american-consumers-or-big-oil/
$137 billion in oil company profits
https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/driveHabits.shtml
- less junk in your trunk the better
http://epa.gov/carbonpollutionstandard/pdfs/20120327factsheet.pdf
- new EPA carbon pollution rule
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/02/08/421061/big-oil-higher-prices-record-profits-less-oil/
- fossil fuels $137 billion, $2 billion from subsidies
http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html