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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...
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...
According to center officials, the Venezuelangovernment, which gives money to the EEPC and isagainst an oil tariff, "came out and said it was abiased study" although they did not withdraw theirmoney from the center...
...speech that Dukakis delivered in Chicago late last week seemed to borrow much of its beef from Gephardt's very own plate. Where until recently Dukakis had been direly warning of trade wars, now he was changing his emphasis by reverting to one of his previous themes: tariff protection for companies that agree to modernize their plants. There was no logical contradiction, no reversal of position, but there was a characteristic blurring of Dukakis' political identity as he tried to repackage himself to reach Gephardt's Rustbelt constituency...
...fare hikes have been confined to the Big Apple. Cineplex Odeon, the Canadian-based chain that first raised the tariff, claims it has no plans to boost prices at its 1,614 other screens in North America. In Hollywood, as well as in Washington, Boston and Chicago, $6 is still tops, while $5.50 gets you through the door in Houston, and $5 is the limit in Atlanta and Cleveland. But Gordon Crawford, a California entertainment analyst, predicts that by the end of 1988 fans in Los Angeles will be paying $7. Some Angelenos seem sanguine at the prospect. "Movies...