Word: oiled
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Stelzer also said Union Carbide, which had given $15,000 annually to the center for the past few years, cut ties to the center following the study's release. Union Carbide, along with other multinational oil and chemical companies and the Reagan Administration opposes an oil import...
Hogan, who long advocated an oil-import tariffbefore releasing the "Energy Security Revisited"report last September, said yesterday that whilehe had no documentation to prove that the center'sfunding was withdrawn for political reasons, thetiming of the funding withdrawal seemed toindicate a retaliatory move on the EnergyDepartment's part...
Mossavar-Rahmani, who co-wrote the study and ison leave from the Kennedy School to serve aspresident of Apache oil company, one of thelargest independent oil producers in the U.S. andan advocate of an oil import fee, also said theDOE withdrew funding from the center for politicalreasons...
...September 21, 1987. In the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington a crowd of journalists and congressional aides is briefed on a new research study advocating an oil import fee. The report makes the front page of The Boston Globe and gets prominent coverage in The Wall Street Journal...
While the study was 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...