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Democrats Vote Against Helping Minnesotans at the Pump

Mark Kennedy ’06 released the following earlier today.

(St. Paul, Minnesota) – Congressman Mark Kennedy voted on two critical pieces of legislation yesterday to help Minnesotans with high prices at the pump.  Following a similar bill from last fall, Kennedy again voted to make gas price gouging illegal.  The bill now moves to the Senate where it will again wait for action.

“I voted last fall to make gas price gouging a federal offense,” said Mark Kennedy.  “It’s past time for the Senate to take up this important measure.  Unfortunately, the Democrats in the House prevented an important bill to increase oil-refining capacity from moving to the Senate.  It’s clear they’re more interested in partisan politics than solving problems.”

The United States has not built a new oil refinery since 1976, greatly reducing our supply of gas even as refineries are operating at full capacity.  Last fall, Kennedy provided the deciding vote on the GAS Act, which made gas gouging a federal offense and called for increased oil-refining facilities.  The GAS Act is also awaiting action in the Senate.

“At a time when Democrats have been so anxious to attack me personally for high gas prices, it is shocking they haven’t commented on yesterday’s vote to increase refining capacity,” added Kennedy.  “If the Democrats and Amy Klobuchar were truly concerned about lowering gas prices, not simply political grandstanding, they would have spoken out against the Democrats who voted against increasing oil-refining capacity yesterday.  I look forward to their release later today.”

I’ve been getting edifucated on economics by a couple of folks, it’d be interesting to get their take on how more supply would work into the whole debate.

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4 Responses to “Democrats Vote Against Helping Minnesotans at the Pump”

  1. Craig Westover says:
    May 4, 2006 at 1:12 pm

    More supply is great — but you don’t build a refinery over the summer. My understanding is lack of refinery capacity isn’t as much of a problem as inefficient use of existing refining capacity. Given the variety of gasoline blends required in different parts of the country at different times of the year, excess capacity at one refinery doesn’t necessarily translate into the ability to provide fuel in an area served by another refinery. Thank the ethanol folks for that one.

    Given that, I’d have to look at the legislation that was voted down. Holding my guy Kennedy to a higher standard than the Democrats — he should have been more specific in the press release instead of simply implying the Democrats voted to screw the American people. I’d really like to be able to vote for the best candidate instead of the lesser of two evils.

  2. Andy says:
    May 4, 2006 at 1:52 pm

    Will you ever be pleased with him on energy? :)

    Again, this was a Campaign release. You should ask your question to the Congressional office where these policies are actually being done.

  3. kb says:
    May 4, 2006 at 11:08 pm

    Response.

  4. fridolf says:
    May 23, 2006 at 7:18 pm

    Perfect pages… tnx