{"id":4426,"date":"2005-03-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-prod.greenpeace.org\/usa\/campaign-updates\/4426\/fueling-global-warming\/"},"modified":"2024-12-09T17:34:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T17:34:53","slug":"fueling-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/fueling-global-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"Fueling Global Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Federal subsidies to the oil industry in The
\nUnited States.<\/span><\/p>\n

Download document<\/a><\/p>\n

Executive summary:<\/b> Despite increasing concerns over climate change and other environmental consequences
\nof our heavy reliance on oil, the U.S. government continues to subsidize the fuel. Subsidies to
\noil are provided to producers, transporters, and consumers in varied and often subtle ways. These
\nsubsidies not only cost taxpayers billions of dollars per year, but they often exacerbate
\nenvironmental damage. They can also reduce oil prices, suppressing market signals to
\ngovernments, oil consumers, and oil producers to begin shifting to alternatives.
\nThis study examines federal subsidies to oil in detail, including policies directly targeted
\nto the oil sector and a pro-rated share of more generally-targeted provisions. By highlighting and
\nquantifying this support, we demonstrate that subsidies continue to play a substantial role in the
\nU.S. economy and identify logical areas for reforms that can save taxpayer money, reduce
\nenvironmental damages, and help the country to meet carbon reduction targets. Our analysis
\nincludes a broad array of subsidy areas, including tax breaks, research and development support,
\nsubsidized credit programs, defense of oil supplies, below-market sale of public oil resources,
\nsubsidized oil transport, and private sector liabilities that are shifted onto the public. We have
\nalso analyzed federal levies on oil and deducted these from our subsidy values as appropriate to
\nobtain our net subsidy estimate. Where available data did not permit specific subsidies to be
\nquantified, we have described them qualitatively.<\/p>\n

Num. pages:<\/b> 140<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Download document<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":10079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[6,100],"p4-page-type":[29],"class_list":["post-4426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fossil-fuels-cat","tag-climate","tag-fossil-fuels","p4-page-type-research"],"yoast_head":"\nFueling Global Warming - Greenpeace<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/fueling-global-warming\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fueling Global Warming\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Download document\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/fueling-global-warming\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Greenpeace\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/greenpeaceusa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2005-03-17T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-12-09T17:34:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/b48f859e-gp04z2q.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@greenpeaceusa\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@greenpeaceusa\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Greenpeace Staff\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/fueling-global-warming\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/fueling-global-warming\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Greenpeace Staff\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#\/schema\/person\/2e289e91a0312e6d4e4d364719a17e24\"},\"headline\":\"Fueling Global Warming\",\"datePublished\":\"2005-03-17T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-12-09T17:34:53+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/fueling-global-warming\/\"},\"wordCount\":248,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/fueling-global-warming\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/b48f859e-gp04z2q.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Climate\",\"Fossil Fuels\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Fossil Fuels\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/fueling-global-warming\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/fueling-global-warming\/\",\"name\":\"Fueling Global Warming - Greenpeace\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/fueling-global-warming\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/fueling-global-warming\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/b48f859e-gp04z2q.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2005-03-17T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-12-09T17:34:53+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/fueling-global-warming\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/fueling-global-warming\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/fueling-global-warming\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/b48f859e-gp04z2q.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/b48f859e-gp04z2q.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":800,\"caption\":\"A polar bear mother and her young on sea ice, north of Svalbard.\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/fueling-global-warming\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Fueling Global Warming\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/\",\"name\":\"Greenpeace USA\",\"description\":\"Greenpeace\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Greenpeace USA\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/cd951b96-greenpeace-logo-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/cd951b96-greenpeace-logo-1.png\",\"width\":299,\"height\":51,\"caption\":\"Greenpeace USA\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/greenpeaceusa\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/greenpeaceusa\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/greenpeaceusa\/\"],\"description\":\"Greenpeace USA is committed to transforming the country\u2019s unjust social, environmental, and economic systems from the ground up to address the climate crisis, safeguard our planet for future generations, advance racial justice, and build an economy that puts people over profits.\",\"email\":\"connect@greenpeace.us\",\"telephone\":\"1-800-722-6995\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#\/schema\/person\/2e289e91a0312e6d4e4d364719a17e24\",\"name\":\"Greenpeace Staff\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5c8828a85b0f57d915f9c693e00f451bee688c8e2caa340c46172207737764bd?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5c8828a85b0f57d915f9c693e00f451bee688c8e2caa340c46172207737764bd?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Greenpeace Staff\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/author\/gpeacestaff\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Fueling Global Warming - Greenpeace","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/fueling-global-warming\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Fueling Global Warming","og_description":"Download document","og_url":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/fueling-global-warming\/","og_site_name":"Greenpeace","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/greenpeaceusa","article_published_time":"2005-03-17T00:00:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-12-09T17:34:53+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":800,"url":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/b48f859e-gp04z2q.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@greenpeaceusa","twitter_site":"@greenpeaceusa","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Greenpeace Staff","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/fueling-global-warming\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/fueling-global-warming\/"},"author":{"name":"Greenpeace Staff","@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#\/schema\/person\/2e289e91a0312e6d4e4d364719a17e24"},"headline":"Fueling Global Warming","datePublished":"2005-03-17T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2024-12-09T17:34:53+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/fueling-global-warming\/"},"wordCount":248,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/fueling-global-warming\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/b48f859e-gp04z2q.jpg","keywords":["Climate","Fossil Fuels"],"articleSection":["Fossil Fuels"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/fueling-global-warming\/","url":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/fueling-global-warming\/","name":"Fueling Global Warming - Greenpeace","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/fueling-global-warming\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/fueling-global-warming\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/b48f859e-gp04z2q.jpg","datePublished":"2005-03-17T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2024-12-09T17:34:53+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/fueling-global-warming\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/fueling-global-warming\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/fueling-global-warming\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/b48f859e-gp04z2q.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/b48f859e-gp04z2q.jpg","width":1200,"height":800,"caption":"A polar bear mother and her young on sea ice, north of Svalbard."},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/fueling-global-warming\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Fueling Global Warming"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/","name":"Greenpeace USA","description":"Greenpeace","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#organization","name":"Greenpeace USA","url":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/cd951b96-greenpeace-logo-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/cd951b96-greenpeace-logo-1.png","width":299,"height":51,"caption":"Greenpeace USA"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/greenpeaceusa","https:\/\/x.com\/greenpeaceusa","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/greenpeaceusa\/"],"description":"Greenpeace USA is committed to transforming the country\u2019s unjust social, environmental, and economic systems from the ground up to address the climate crisis, safeguard our planet for future generations, advance racial justice, and build an economy that puts people over profits.","email":"connect@greenpeace.us","telephone":"1-800-722-6995"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#\/schema\/person\/2e289e91a0312e6d4e4d364719a17e24","name":"Greenpeace Staff","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5c8828a85b0f57d915f9c693e00f451bee688c8e2caa340c46172207737764bd?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5c8828a85b0f57d915f9c693e00f451bee688c8e2caa340c46172207737764bd?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Greenpeace Staff"},"url":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/author\/gpeacestaff\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12152,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4426\/revisions\/12152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4426"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=4426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}