Outgoing Senator John Cornyn of Texas, the largest oil-producing state in the U.S., claimed that the ban is a “gimmick.”
Cornyn’s colleague, Senator Lisa Murkowski of major oil producer Alaska, cast her doubts on the export ban to the Hill : “We’re talking about global supply, so I worry that we do something in the short-term … that doesn’t really move the needle.”
Senator Mike Rounds of South Dakota also expressed criticism and said he is instead looking to other options, including restarting idled refineries. “The bigger problem we’ve got right now is, as I understand it, in California, we’ve already lost two more refineries because of…
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