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...Rolls Royce owned by this man who fought for the rights of the unprotected, who himself had known poverty as a young Jewish boy growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, does matter. Just as the $20,000 fee he accepted from well-known stock manipulator Louis Wolfson or the $15,000 he was paid for a "seminar" he led at American University, all while serving on the Court, mattered to the Senate when Lyndon Baines Johnson nominated him to replace Earl Warren as chief justice...
...billed as an attempt togenerate 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 fee...
...report's authors contend that they werestraightforward about the funding for theresearch, and that it in no way biased the outcomeof their study. Furthermore, the center for thelast 10 years has produced 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...