Why alternative energy gets little Congressional support.

So far this year, The US oil industrychas pumped $14,603,634 into federal elections, $12,792,986 to Republicans and the leftovers to conservative Democrats who vote with the Republicans on energy matters; John Barrow being the top recipient of the oil industry's legalized bribes among Democrats for 2011-'12.

Since 1989 bribes masked as donations, lobbyist perks and "Gifts" from the oil industry to Members of Congress (and candidates) has come to $175,262,390-- $131,577,484 of that to Republicans.

If you were to look at a chart of all the Members of the House who have gotten six-figure bribes from the oil industry so far this year, you would see a strategic pattern. Obviously a great deal of money is going into bolster the GOP leadership that supports the industry's taxpayer subsidies and anti-environmental agenda:
Speaker John Boehner ($218,850)
Whip Kevin McCarthy ($172,200)
Ways & Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp ($140,000)
Energy Committee Chairman Fred Upton ($127,000)
Majority Leader Eric Cantor ($121,800).

And Big Oil is heavily pushing two of their most slavish supporters, Rick Berg (ND- $245,450) and Denny Rehberg (MT- $190,070), for Senate seats.

And in case you did not think the Oil industry is involved in American politics, here is a report outlining their wishlist to Congress:
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/227409-oil-lobby-gives-wish-list-to-dems-gop

 In a nutshell, what they want is everyone to just shut up about their taxpayer subsidies and ridiculously low taxes and just get rid of more and more regulations.