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A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Energy found that 50 percent of new oil production in America would be unprofitable if not for government subsidies. The study, performed by researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute and Earth Track, Inc., found that, at prices of $50 per barrel, light oil produced by hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”)was heavily dependent on subsidies.
In fact, forty percent of the Permian basin in Texas would be economically unviable without subsidies, and for the home of Bakken crude production, Williston Basin, that number jumps to 59 percent, according to the researchers.
In addition, the study highlights what this additional fossil fuel production means for impacts to the climate:
“…continued subsidies for oil investment could produce oil (and associated gas) that, once burned, will yield CO2emissions equivalent to nearly 1 percent of the remaining global carbon budget for all sectors of all economies.”
...Subsidies often come in the form of tax breaks, which is just one of the many ways oil companies receive government handouts.
Study Finds Half of New Oil Production Unprofitable Without Government Handouts
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A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Energy found that 50 percent of new oil production in America would be unprofitable if not for government subsidies. The study, performed by researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute and Earth Track, Inc., found that, at prices of $50 per barrel, light oil produced by hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”)was heavily dependent on subsidies.
In fact, forty percent of the Permian basin in Texas would be economically unviable without subsidies, and for the home of Bakken crude production, Williston Basin, that number jumps to 59 percent, according to the researchers.
In addition, the study highlights what this additional fossil fuel production means for impacts to the climate:
“…continued subsidies for oil investment could produce oil (and associated gas) that, once burned, will yield CO2emissions equivalent to nearly 1 percent of the remaining global carbon budget for all sectors of all economies.”
...Subsidies often come in the form of tax breaks, which is just one of the many ways oil companies receive government handouts.
man, what a joke.
Study Finds Half of New Oil Production Unprofitable Without Government Handouts
https://www.desmogbl...=dsb newsletter
A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Energy found that 50 percent of new oil production in America would be unprofitable if not for government subsidies. The study, performed by researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute and Earth Track, Inc., found that, at prices of $50 per barrel, light oil produced by hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”)was heavily dependent on subsidies.
In fact, forty percent of the Permian basin in Texas would be economically unviable without subsidies, and for the home of Bakken crude production, Williston Basin, that number jumps to 59 percent, according to the researchers.
In addition, the study highlights what this additional fossil fuel production means for impacts to the climate:
“…continued subsidies for oil investment could produce oil (and associated gas) that, once burned, will yield CO2emissions equivalent to nearly 1 percent of the remaining global carbon budget for all sectors of all economies.”
...Subsidies often come in the form of tax breaks, which is just one of the many ways oil companies receive government handouts.
man, what a joke.
Study Finds Half of New Oil Production Unprofitable Without Government Handouts
https://www.desmogbl...=dsb newsletter
A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Energy found that 50 percent of new oil production in America would be unprofitable if not for government subsidies. The study, performed by researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute and Earth Track, Inc., found that, at prices of $50 per barrel, light oil produced by hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”)was heavily dependent on subsidies.
In fact, forty percent of the Permian basin in Texas would be economically unviable without subsidies, and for the home of Bakken crude production, Williston Basin, that number jumps to 59 percent, according to the researchers.
In addition, the study highlights what this additional fossil fuel production means for impacts to the climate:
“…continued subsidies for oil investment could produce oil (and associated gas) that, once burned, will yield CO2emissions equivalent to nearly 1 percent of the remaining global carbon budget for all sectors of all economies.”
...Subsidies often come in the form of tax breaks, which is just one of the many ways oil companies receive government handouts.
man, what a joke.
