Clean energy lobby dwarfed by billion dollar fossil fuel spending in Washington

[Nathanael]

Great exploration of current U.S. energy lobbying:


Open Secrets, a Washington, DC-based lobby watchdog, is reporting that the alternative energy sector spent a record $30 million promoting their industry to lawmakers in the US capitol in 2009.

Writing for Open Secrets, Cassandra LaRussa reports that since 1998, the amount of money the renewable sector has spent on Capitol Hill has grown by a factor of 12.

While it is great news that the renewable sector is making the effort to ensure that its concerns are being heard in Washington by lawmakers and government departments, it remains an uphill battle when you consider that their main competitors in the the fossil fuel sector have spent more than two billion dollars on lobbying since 1998.

Link: http://www.energyboom.com/policy/clean-energy-lobby-dwarfed-billion-dollar-fossil-fuel-expenditures-washington

[txlibdem]

1. $2B? That's less than 1% of the tax breaks they get

We're paying them to lobby against our own interests.


:wtf: