GOP supported bill favors oil companies
The most recent quarterly profits for oil companies were as follows: Exxon Mobil, $9.9 billion; Royal Dutch Shell, $7.369 billion; BP $5.33 billion; ConocoPhillips $3.8 billion; Amerada Hess $272 million.
Meanwhile, our representatives Howard Coble, Virginia Foxx, Robin Hayes, Patrick McHenry, Sue Myrick, and Charles Taylor, all Republicans, voted for H.R. 3893, the Gasoline for America's Security Act of 2005. This bill weakens the Clean Air Act while purporting to address issues of refinery capacity. It also weakens requirements for more than 17,000 industrial facilities. And by limiting use of cleaner fuels, it will hamper the introduction of low-sulfur diesel fuel, which is estimated to save 20,000 lives per year.
The bill unnecessarily extends Clean Air Act deadlines for ozone cleanup, putting millions of Americans at risk of adverse health such as asthma and other respiratory ailments.
The legislation further assures industry lengthy government reviews and new environmental hurdles do not block refinery expansion.
American taxpayers will foot the bill for over $4 billion in industry giveaways. I will remember how generous our Republican representatives have been to oil companies come election time.
James Biaso
Winston-Salem
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I'd make a comment about Rape and Plunder ... but apparently no one but you and I care, Mr. Baiso.
Posted on November 5, 2005 12:51 PM