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FuelFix: China Keeping an Eye on Surging U.S. Oil and Gas Production
Advertisements launched by Allied Progress this summer said oil exports would “raise gas prices, cost U.S. jobs and help grow China’s economy while putting our energy future at greater risk.”
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Washington Times: Obama Stands Firm Against Lifting Oil Export Ban Despite Potential Economic Benefits
“Big oil is all hat and no cattle when it comes to their claims of momentum in the face of these facts. [Friday’s] vote was nothing more than another piece of meaningless political theater by a dysfunctional House of Representatives that routinely passes legislation with no hope of success,” said Karl Frisch, executive director of the group Allied Progress, a liberal advocacy group that’s been leading the fight against the House legislation.
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RT America: U.S. House Votes to Lift 40-year-old Ban on Crude Oil Exports
The US House of Representatives has voted in favor of lifting a four-decade ban on oil exports. Lifting the prohibition has been a years-long priority for the oil industry and its lobbyists.
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Statement on House Vote to Lift Crude Oil Export Ban
While the bill cleared the House today, it does not have sufficient support to pass in the Senate, and The White House has twice threatened to veto any change to current policy.
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Wyoming Public Radio: Refiners Take On Big Oil In Fight Over Crude Oil Export Ban
Another group called Allied Progress, a self-styled grassroots lobby promoting a continued ban, has been running television ads in Colorado, Montana & New Mexico. “Big Oil is opening their wallet, lobbying Congress to let them ship American crude oil overseas which could cost U.S. jobs, raise gas prices and make us more dependent on Middle Eastern oil,” the ad copy reads.
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Allied Progress on House Energy And Commerce Committee Vote: “Bought and Paid for by Big Oil”
Members who voted to lift crude oil export ban have taken $11.5 million from the oil and gas industry throughout their congressional careers.
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Allied Progress Applauds White House Opposition to Crude Oil Export Ban Repeal Effort in Congress
“We applaud President Obama for standing with the vast majority of Americans in opposing big oil’s effort to repeal this critical policy,” said Allied Progress executive director Karl Frisch.
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E&E News: Dem Strategist Takes on Oil Industry — Despite the Odds
Democratic strategist Karl Frisch concedes he’s outnumbered and badly outspent by the oil industry when it comes to waging a campaign to keep the nation’s decades-old ban on crude exports intact.
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U.S. News & World Report: Bill to Reverse Ban on U.S. Oil Exports Advances in House
A House panel voted to end the nation’s decades-old ban on exporting crude oil Thursday, adding momentum to a bipartisan drive to lift the 1970s-era restriction and – as one of the first meetings lawmakers scheduled after the end of their five-week recess Monday – an indication of the high priority Republicans have placed on sending U.S.-produced oil overseas.
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Allied Progress: Today’s Vote Backing Big Oil Was “Shortsighted and Reckless”
Statement from Allied Progress executive director Karl Frisch following House Subcommittee vote to lift crude oil export ban.