US House votes to lift oil export ban, veto looms

It remains to be seen what, if anything, Republicans will agree to in exchange for minority support to end the trade restrictions prohibition. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., said in a statement.

“I voted against this bill in committee in hopes that House Republicans would be willing to work together to improve it before it comes to the House floor for a vote”, Luján said. The crude oil export ban was originally created in the 1970’s to protect Americans from energy scarcity.

While the Obama administration “claims to support an all-of-the-above energy policy, their actions don’t match the rhetoric”, Upton said.

An argument made by Republican lawmakers is that lifting the ban would lead to lower prices. “Whether it’s tied back to infrastructure or sequestration, there is a few kind of opportunity”. “So it’s not going to happen”, he said.

“Repealing the 1970s-era ban on USA crude oil exports would do just that”. However, any small amounts of exported oil will not affect the global 93 million barrels per day oil production significantly and again we should not expect any considerable increase in oil prices in the United States and the world. “America is in the middle of the energy renaissance”.

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“Much has changed since the ban on crude was put in place”, Representative Fred Upton, a Republican of Michigan, said before the vote. It will help our allies overseas that are begging for our oil for stability while hurting those that wish us harm.

But with only 26 Democrats voting in favour, the bill failed to gain the 290 votes necessary to overturn a presidential veto. I know how frustrated many of you are with Washington. “From the perspective of the drilling contractor community, this is an enormous benefit to our members”, said Stephen Colville, IADC President and CEO. The reality of it, however, was that it was a move which was stepping all over free commerce. John Cornyn (R-Texas), who serves as majority whip, are leaving the door to a deal open.

Fortunately, the bill doesn’t look likely to become law. “Iran and Russian Federation use their oil as a weapon to bully other nations”.

The House passed a bill Friday afternoon lifting the crude oil export ban by a bipartisan 261-159 vote. In fact, successful oil companies might be the best people to make those investments because they understand what it takes to consistently deliver power to the grid. She didn’t say “no, ‘” Barton told reporters.

In 1975, at the height of the Arab Oil Embargo, President Gerald Ford signed a bill that blocked any exports on USA crude on the argument that all US produced oil should remain in the country. “I don’t think it’s mature enough”. In a recent Wall Street Journal op‐ed article, Leon Panetta, former Secretary of Defense and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency under President Barack Obama, and Stephen Hadley, former National Security Advisor under President George W. Bush, strongly endorsed efforts to lift the ban on US oil exports. “However, we are not taking advantage of enormous economic benefits because of the crude oil ban, which compromises American competitiveness and forces American families to spend more on energy”. The oil industry is lobbying furiously to end the ban, calling it outdated in an era of enormous USA oil production and saying that exports would spur more drilling.