During the late 1930s American industry spent over $100 million annually on aviation research.
The industry also spent more than $58 million on lobbying over the last two years.
The industry spent more than $150,000 that year to make 25,000 phone calls and send 42,000 pieces of direct mail.
Since then, the industry has spent more than $2.5 million to press its case in public and in Congress.
Last year the industry spent $150 million on advertising, or an average of $2.16 per case.
The industry has also spent more than $13.5 million on lobbying since January 1996, the analysis found.
In April, for example, the industry spent $746.7 million on fuel.
Japanese industry has already spent nearly a billion dollars on this technology.
The industry is spending about $2.5 billion on consumer advertising this year.
The industry spent years trying to fight this instead of releasing there own online services.