[K-oneTexas]

Rep. Joe Pitts represents the 16th Congressional District of Pennsylvania. Rep. Phil English represents the 3rd Congressional District of Pennsylvania.

[Philly Nomad]

This is pathetic. Supposedly business-savvy congressmen think Oil companies want to spend billions of dollars to lower their profit margin.

[kcm.org]

What a fairy tale as America is going to “vote” overwhelmingly for a veto-proof Congress to protect America's environment!!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

It might be worthwhile to site a new refinery near existing crude and finished product pipelines. Supplying an oil refinery by truck doesn’t work very well.

[KEmom]

They are going the right way - the use of closed military bases may not make sense, but the premise that Congress is voting on ridiculous legislation should be highlighted and screamed on the highest mountain. They should be revoking legislation already passed that has crippled and hampered our energy independence.

[decimon]

Captive Primate Safety Act

I thought I'd cease to be a captive primate when I left the Army just to learn my real captor is Congress.

[shove_it]

HR 2279 proposes refineries on closed military bases for supplying the military. See post #3 on this thread as a possible solution for supplying refined products for civilian consumption:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035624/posts

[an amused spectator]

In fact, in 2007, according to the Energy Information Administration, the United States imported 148 million barrels of finished gasoline for use in our cars and trucks. That is on top of the billions of barrels of crude oil we imported.

148 million x 55 gallons = ~ 8.14 billion gallons

That's about 2 years gasoline usage for 2 medium-large states.

[RightWhale]

If the intent is to expand fuel production with new plants, build coal to liquid. Oil refineries are not a sensible investment at this point.