Taxpayers charged an average of $7 billion a year to support extraction of fossil fuels from public lands:

In the case of coal from the Powder River Basin, an area of active federal coal leases, every short ton of coal produced has a net cost to American taxpayers of $49 dollars. That means that Powder River Basin coal production alone—only a small sliver of fossil fuel production on federal lands nationwide—had a net cost to taxpayers of $17.8 billion in 2015, dwarfing the supposed economic benefits of allowing new fossil fuel leases on federal lands and waters.