Senator Murkowski plans bill to kill oil export ban

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Source: Reuters

Politics | Thu May 7, 2015 4:04pm EDT

Senator Murkowski plans bill to kill oil export ban

WASHINGTON | BY TIMOTHY GARDNER

(Reuters) - U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski said on Thursday she will unveil a bill next week to reverse the U.S. oil export ban in an effort to build support for killing the 1970s-era restriction that drillers say threatens to choke the domestic energy boom.

Murkowski, the Republican chairwoman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said she will unveil the bill on Tuesday, although it was uncertain when the measure would get a vote in her committee.

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The legislation, which faces opposition from Democrats including Ed Markey and Robert Menendez, could eventually take the form of a free-standing measure or as an amendment to another wider bill on trade or another issue.

She could also use the bill as a way to push the Obama administration "to use tools they have at their disposal," to relax the ban, Murkowski said.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/07/us-usa-crude-exports-idUSKBN0NS28520150507

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1. This has been the purpose of the completing the TCP to the Port of Galveston all along.

All that filthy Alberta and Utah tar sand can be piped to waiting Chinese tankers. In return, they'll build 16 lane truck routes from Texas to giant distribution centers to bring back a lot of Made in China processed plastic. A nice neat circle of petro-death and economic co-dependency. Barbara doesn't even have to run again - they'll make sure she gets at least $10 million a year as a lobbyist.

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2. US exports ---> less worldwide movement of crude oil

less pollution from shipping.

whats not to like?