I really appreciate what JMR had to say. I agree that the above article just listed a bunch of generalities. Where did the author get his info? Also the actual amount of subsidy the oil company's receives has to include the federal income tax payments the the industry generates by employing it people as well as any corporate tax it may pay. In other words All tax payments made by oil company's(individual/corporate) - the tax subsidy = actual tax break. That is the real subsidy. We cant look at what they receive without looking at what they pay. I would guess that oil company's generate billions of dollars in tax revenue. That being said I came here to find the truth about tax subsidy's for oil companies and it still seems to allude me. No one seems to be able to point to one. I have learned a lot about what a tax subsidy is but not so much on what it actually is when it comes to oil company's.