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Posted on 06/27/2008 11:06:00 AM PDT by Red Badger
WASHINGTON, DC. — With gas prices continuing to linger above $4 per gallon going into the July 4th congressional break, Congressman Harold “Hal” Rogers urged Speaker Nancy Pelosi to immediately bring an end to a shortsighted prohibition, which denies federal agencies from contracting for or using coal-derived fuels. Rogers joined like-minded Members of Congress in signing a discharge petition to bring up legislation to repeal Section 526 of the Energy Independence and Security Act.
“With skyrocketing gas prices, it is absurd the reticence of Speaker Pelosi and her leadership team to deny consideration of diversifying our fuel stock and easing prices at the pump,” stated Rogers. “This senseless ban was slipped into legislation at the 11th hour and discourages coal-to-liquids development. The U.S. Air Force is clamoring for a domestic jet fuel alternative as prices have tripled in three years. We as a nation are wise to use our own energy resources and utilize our abundance of coal.”
Coal-to-liquids is the process of converting coal into a transportation fuel and continues to hold great promise as a domestic alternative to foreign oil, particularly for diesel and jet fuel purposes. Section 526 effectively prohibits any federal agency from entering into a contract for an alternative or synthetic fuel for any mobility-related use. The discharge petition calls for immediate repeal of Section 526.
With a simple majority of signatories, a discharge petition requires a legislative measure to be considered by the full House of Representatives under the rules. In recent weeks, Rogers has signed a number of petitions calling for Speaker Pelosi to bring federal legislation which reduces gas prices to the floor for debate. These measures include lifting the 28-year ban on new oil and gas leases along the outer continental shelf, opening up 2000 acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, and immediately permitting three new gasoline refineries.
Rogers will continue to press Speaker Pelosi to bring forward legislative measures to reduce the price of gasoline for the American public and urge the President to work with Congress to increase the production of American energy.
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Environmental lobbies control Washington. The Dems need their support and votes.
Never happen and you won’t see anything on the news about it either.
The Nazis and racist South African Government during apartheid burned fuel made from coal, no way will she allow us to be grouped together with them when her main supporters are environmentalists.
I googled "Coal to liquids news" and there are plants being built in CHINA, INDIA and many other places with coal deposits because of the high oil prices. We, OTOH, are stagnant..................
You mean places where they put their need over CO2 emissions, double the CO2 doesn’t scare them, they are realists while Nanci is a theorist.
Back during the oil shortage of the 1970's, Hollywood made a movie called "The Formula" that accused Big Oil of having a formula, obtained from the Nazis, for cheaply producing oil from coal but keeping it a secret so that they could keep oil prices high. Back then, liberals SUPPORTED oil from coal. I am surprised no one is bringing that up.
I remember that movie, it was when the energy crunch was on and Carter swore if we didn’t solve it soon (within a couple of years) we would have to do it sitting in the dark.
How much you want to bet that movie gets pulled out and is televised on one of the big cable channels within a few months?
I was thinking the same thing but liberals have a problem in that they no longer support coal-to-oil. They don't really want people clamoring for this.
List (chapter and verse) all the regulations and laws that need to be repealed in order to fulfill the following. Use this list as the new "Contract With America for Energy Independence". Have a mega-bill introduced that in one fell swoop removes the self-imposed energy embargo.
My Energy Manifesto:
* Cease all ethanol production. It takes away from food production and the unintended consequence is higher food costs. As diesel prices go up, the cost of farming tips the balance of cost to make ethanol a bad idea. Just say "no" to ethanol! Even Jimmy Carter says that diverting farm production from food to fuel is dumb – even HE gets it. This will create only ONE "blend" of gasoline and will cease regional "boutique" blends (gasohols) which are stupid, costly, and meaningless. Trucking custom blends around the country is wasteful. Ethanol blends may actually lead to fewer miles to the gallon, and adds to the cost of production and transportation. Newer cars do not need oxygenated fuels.
* Lift the restrictions in order to drill for oil in Alaska, Gulf of Mexico, and other sites in the CONUS as a matter of national security.
* Encourage the petro industry to construct state-of-the-art refineries and/or retrofit current and dormant ones and crank up production for our newly-accessed oil in the CONUS.
* Make all “carbon credit” scams unlawful. Discrediting Algore should have been a slam-dunk a long time ago. Stop electing Reps who buy into the Global Warming / Global Cooling / Climate Change Hoax. CO2 is not our enemy!
* Construct SEVERAL, regional Pebble-Bed Modular Reactors (or other similar modern designs) that are rechargeable, and cleaner than any current nuclear generator design. Refine spent nuke fuel for recycling. DO SOMETHING NUCLEAR to resolve energy problems.
* Use the residual heat from the reactors above to process motor fuel from coal and/or shale. Even though Clinton "stole" some of the best coal reserves, we still have a lot to use.
* Become independent enough to make the cartels (i.e. OPEC) inconsequential.
* Convince local taxing bodies to lift or cap the sales tax on gasoline so that as gas prices go up, the local tax collectors don’t see a windfall revenue jump at the expense of the consumer. The Federal government could compel the states (and locals) to cap the fuel taxes.
If you squint real hard, and read between the lines, the ‘manifesto’ will require fewer RINOs and LibDems and the election of some clear-minded conservatives to even consider the above.
It knocks the oil companies and makes them out to be the enemy, that is all they are interested in.
diversifying our fuel stock -- okay
easing prices at the pump -- forget it
The world of Fedgov is beyond comprehension.
Think will ever find out who initiated and slipped in the Section 526 clause?? I doubt it. This is the Sh$t that needs to be found out and made public. There is a Congressional record of where the bill was at the 11th hour and who added it, etc.
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