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Rick Heede, Rick Morgan, and Scott Ridley. Center for Renewable Resources. Multi-fuel review of federal subsidies in the early 1980s. Good historical data. Posted with permission of authors.

Komanoff Energy Associates for Greenpeace. Detailed review of historical federal subsidies to nuclear power. Thanks to Charlie Komanoff and to Greenpeace for permission to repost.

J. Alan Beamon, Ronald Earley, Robert Eynon, Edward Flynn, Tom Leckey, Kevin Lillis. U.S. Energy Information Administration, 2000.

Jenny Wahl for the Institute for Local Self Reliance. Overview of the external costs of petroleum not included in the market price, including tax breaks, oil security, and environmental and health effects.

Amy Bricker, Mark Bricoe, Blake Ethridge, Evan Harrje, and Karmen Kallio for the International Center for Technology Assessment. Includes estimates for environmental and transport-related externalities. Results not easily comparable to other U. S. studies.

Marshall Goldberg for the Renewable Energy Policy Project. July 2000 Research Report No. 11.

U. S. General Accounting Office. Letter report containing historical data and comparisons on federal subsidies to oil and to ethanol.

Ronald Sutherland for the Cato Institute, February 2001. Cato does good work advocating for subsidy reform, with the fairly glaring exception of anything having to do with petroleum. Perhaps the organization's heavy reliance on funding from Koch Industries constrains free expression here. For starters, Sutherland's paper would have benefited from some peer review, and from the use of more realistic subsidy values for oil.

National Environmental Trust. Review of the challenges and costs of US dependence on foreign oil. Discussion of past and present proposals to address the problem.

Though this specific bill is gone, the report provides useful background on a variety of energy subsidies that are either already enacted or regularly crop up in legislative initiatives.