The Ethanol Papers - Paperturn manuscript - Flipbook - Page 600
GRAND NATIONAL SPITTING CONTEST
Bryce attempts to make hay with a short history of “financial inducements’ being
given to politicians on behalf of the ethanol industry. Got it; duly noted. Bribes
are offered to politicians, and politicians accept them.
Bryce also writes about some wrong-doing that ADM was found guilty of, and
fined. So?
Other than in the hope that no one will take more than two seconds to consider
all of the bribes, scandals, convictions, and fines that the oil industry is responsible for, not to mention all the deaths of those workers who were killed in drilling-related accidents and in the tetraethyl lead experiments, I don’t get the point
in his trying to show that the oil industry can spit further. We know that. The oil
industry can spit further, and has been spitting on the public for more than 100
years.
I guess I already answered it: Oil industry doublespeak.
Abbreviated list of links related to oil/gasoline subsidies
• http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/business/04bptax.html
• http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa390.pdf
• https://www.eli.org/research-report/estimating-us-government-subsidies-energysources-2002-2008
• http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/spn/2010/spn1005.pdf
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies
• https://blumenauer.house.gov/energy-issues#fossil
• http://merkley.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/?id=F68FED0D-08C0-4DC4-9035211E28DD9B7E
• http://blog.ucsusa.org/jim-kliesch/oil-industry-subsidies-are-anything-butrosy?_ga=1.161769531.686943746.1492723673
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_industry - no subsidy info, just history
• http://investmentwatchblog.com/ending-oil-subsidies/
• http://investmentwatchblog.com/house-gop-votes-unanimously-to-protect-big-oil-subsidies/
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/energysource/2012/04/25/the-surprising-reason-that-oilsubsidies-persist-even-liberals-love-them/#102e12632792
• https://thinkprogress.org/big-oils-banner-year-higher-prices-record-profits-less-oild337b2dcf58c
• http://priceofoil.org/2012/02/07/the-big-the-bad-and-the-subsidized/
• http://www.foreffectivegov.org/sites/default/files/budget/Revenue/OilandGas.pdf
