Word: eepc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fanfare which accompanied the release of the report was hardly typical of most academic research findings. Called "Energy Security Revisited," the report was prepared by two scholars at the Kennedy School's Energy and Environmental Policy Center (EEPC) and was heavily promoted by public relations specialists hired by companies who backed the study's findings...
...momentum for an oil import tariff, itsucceeded most in calling attention to itself.Many reporters who attended the briefing say thatthey were suspicious of the hard-sell packaging ofthe report and of its funding sources. And thoughCapitol Hill never made much movement on oilimport fee legislation, several major funders ofthe EEPC who opposed such a fee have seemed tomake a point of distancing themselves from thecenter...
...publicity was not the result of thecontents of the report, as is usually the case inacademia, but instead stemmed from a well-craftedpublicity campaign. Independent oil companies whofavor an oil import fee provided much of thefunding for the EEPC project and the publicitycampaign was directed by those companies' offices...
Written by Bradshaw Professor of Public PolicyWilliam H. Hogan and EEPC Assistant Director BijanMossavar-Rahmani, the report advocates a $5 abarrel oil import fee, saying that a tariff willhelp reduce American dependence on oil sourcesfrom the volatile Persian Gulf area. In addition,the study challenges the findings of a 1987 DOEreport, called "Energy Security," which the EEPCsays miscalculated by $200 billion the costs of anoil import...
...research advocating anoil import fee, suggesting that the report'sconclusions were not altered to suit the donorswishes. Instead, center officals say, it may havebeen that the oil companies were aware of theopinon's of those at the center, and, in search ofa study backing an oil import fee, the EEPC wasmerely the logical choice...