The Fossil Fuel Privilege examines how public money, public lands, tax rules, and weak liability standards can shift the costs of energy production onto taxpayers and communities. It explains direct subsidies, tax expenditures, reduced royalties, credit guarantees, and other forms of public support.
The book follows the public costs of fossil-fuel disasters, abandoned wells and mines, pollution, health damage, and unequal exposure. It distinguishes measured government spending from broader social costs while showing how private gains can be concentrated and long-term risks dispersed across generations.
Written for taxpayers, workers, families, and communities, this first volume asks for transparent accounting and public accountability. It argues that energy policy should disclose who receives the benefits, who bears the risks, and who ultimately pays for cleanup and damage.