Baptists and bootleggers.(banning of alcohol)

Urs Brandt and Gert Svendsen, "Fighting Windmills: The Coalition of Industrialists and Environmentalists in the Climate Change Issue," International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Volume 4, 2004 (environmental-expert.com)

In 1983, Clemson University economist Bruce Yandle pointed out that Prohibition was supported by an odd alliance of "Baptists," who wanted alcohol banned on moral grounds, and "Bootleggers," who knew they would make a killing under the ban. Such unlikely coalitions have been seen in many other areas of government regulation. It is common today, for instance, to see alliances between "Baptist" environmentalist groups and "Bootlegging" industrialists. Economists Urs Brandt and Gert Svendsen report that this alliance is prominent in the promotion of wind-based energy, both in the U.S. and the E.U.

In America, the researchers rue that federal environmental regulations preferred by Greens and status-quo corporations working together often require "command-and-control enforcement of ...