[AU72]

By this time Congress should have peppered Obama with at least a dozen ‘common-sense’ popular bills begging him to veto.

[txrefugee]

It’s high time this rancid legacy of the Second-Worst President in U.S. History, Jimmah Carter, is thrown into the garbage dump of bad enviro-nazi ideas.

[100American]

Good news, make take a position on US oil now...

Tension in the Gulf drives the commodities prices upward as the way out for tankers is limited and it does not take much to turn off the spigot...

Side benefit for those at the top who can and will play it going up, and down, they know what is coming as they planned it

[central_va]

Lifting the export ban would lower prices at the pump, create jobs and boost the economy, said House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.

We have to import oil every day to meet demand. So I don't believe this for a minute.

[Ophiucus]

Even though I’m not sure I agree with this bill (I would need to read up on it more), I find it amazing that even in this Dear Leader is baffled by Constitutional process. Seriously, the Commerce Secretary?

[Tenacious 1]

Defying a White House veto threat, the Republican-controlled House on Friday approved a bill...

Oh looky. The "institution" isn't broken yet. Boehner continues to "save" it. Why now does he seem not to care about a veto? Geez.

[cicero2k]

So now to get the senate to hold a vote, more dopey windmills must be added to the bill.

[Tenacious 1]

Anything we can do to drive down the cost of a barrel of oil is good for us locally and bad for our adversaries globally.

I believe this bill would allow more potential supply in the global market. This should have the effect of again driving down the price of a barrel of oil.

[Svartalfiar]

Oil ban: These measures were bundled together in the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA), which came into force in December 1975. It's the law.

Lifting it: The White House called the bill unnecessary and argued that a decision on whether to end the ban should be made by the Commerce secretary.

So, the Commerce secretary can just white-out parts of the law that aren't needed anymore? Not surprising from all the other law ignoring/redefining they've been doing!

[The_Republic_Of_Maine]

"Lifting the export ban would lower prices at the pump, create jobs and boost the economy, said House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio."

I support lifting the ban, but I also believe nothing that comes out of that lying scumbags mouth.

[catnipman]

“Lifting the export ban would lower prices at the pump”

How would exporting oil,thus making it more scarce, lower prices at the pump?