Bishop (Political Royalty Book 3) by Evelyn Adams

Author:Evelyn Adams [Adams, Evelyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: alpha billionaire romance, military romance, politician, alpha billionaires and alpha heroes, office romance
Publisher: Evelyn Adams
Published: 2016-09-19T18:30:00+00:00

“AND WE HAVE TO TAKE a long, hard look at our energy policies, make sure we know who really benefits from them and that we can both afford the cost and have the will to pay it.” Walker stood in front of the crowd of refinery and company heads at the Energy Summit, and slashed and burned his way through the speech they’d gone over together. Haven would be furious with him if he wasn’t saying exactly what she herself believed. “Alternative does not automatically equal good. We need to seriously consider our commitment to corn ethanol and start with an honest evaluation of the cost-risk-benefit. We can’t afford to hold onto a mistake simply because we spent a lot of time making it.”

The audience was stony-faced. Most of them made a significant chunk of change—tens of billions of dollars, actually—from the ethanol subsidies to start and then later from ethanol mandates sent down from the federal government. They didn’t want anyone, especially a Republican senator running on strengthening US agriculture, to look too closely at a lucrative industry that might never have worked as well as was promised. They counted on lawmakers having no opinion of their own and being happy to adopt the one laid out for them, especially when it came with a big fat campaign contribution.

In most cases, it was an easy sell. Who didn’t think alternative energy sounded like a forward-leaning idea? Lobbyists could get almost everybody to stand up and pimp for that. Never mind the fact that it took almost as much energy to make ethanol as it delivered and spikes in corn prices brought on by artificially inflated demand had much broader consequences. If nobody paid too much attention to the facts, things could continue to roll on unhampered, exactly the way the industry wanted.

“That’s not the way he wrote it, is it?” said Justin, coming to stand behind her.

She and Justin worked side by side for fifteen plus hours every day, but since the night in her hotel room when Walker showed up, they’d kept the focus squarely on campaign logistics, avoiding all talk of the man himself.

“Nope,” she said, unable to hide her smile. “That’s not how he wrote it.”

She and Walker had gone round and round about ethanol and the Renewable Fuel Standard. Travis had even gotten in on the action, reminding both of them that many of the big money donors paid a fortune to have the RFS included in the party platform and they weren’t going to support a candidate who went against their interests. In the end, it seemed like there was no good way around. Except it was wrong. She knew it and Walker knew it. Despite lobbyists preaching to the contrary, ethanol had at best a negligible effect on US fuel independence and at worst a detrimental one. It cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars and benefited multi-billion dollar integrated oil companies with their names on the gas stations across the country.

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