Money | climate change Big Industries Joust Over Energy Prices Companies strive to suit their own ends in tug-of-war over green policies By Kevin Spak Posted Nov 8, 2007 2:18 PM CST Copied Andrew Liveris, Dow Chemical's chairman and chief executive officer, speaks at News Corp.'s Global Energy Initiative on Wednesday, May 9, 2007 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) (Associated Press) US industries are at each other’s throats over energy policy as each sector tries to protect its own interests. A prime example came last year, when Dow Chemical's push for tougher automobile fuel-economy standards—which would help keep a lid on Dow's oil expenditures—ran afoul of automakers, who stand to suffer from such legislation and are huge Dow clients. Dow eventually backed off, but other industries spar on. Biodiesel producers are battling makers of a meat-based fuel for federal dollars. Oil companies have taken up Dow’s fuel-efficiency cry against automakers, who in turn are demanding more ethanol pumps from oil. As Dow’s chief told the Wall Street Journal, in a global push to solve energy, “someone wins, someone loses.” Read These Next Beyonce leaves national anthem unfinished. A space capsule carrying ashes of 160 people crashed in the ocean. A lesson in minding your own business ... at 30,000 feet. The death toll in the Texas floods has risen to 27, including 9 kids. Report an error