Musgrave says bill would help with fuel
The Gazette
Published July 3, 2008 at 12:05 a.m.
Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, R-Colo., says she's hearing stories from people struggling with the high price of gasoline and thinks a bill she has introduced could help.
The Republican lawmaker spent some time Wednesday pumping gasoline for people at a Longmont station.
She also talked to them about her bill, which would try to cut the country's reliance on foreign oil by allowing drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and offshore.
The bill would also invest some of the revenue from new oil exploration into a renewable energy trust fund and extend renewable energy tax credits.
"It puts emphasis on domestic production," Musgrave said of her newly introduced bill.
The bill proposes drilling in ANWR and offshore in an environmentally responsible manner, a plan Musgrave said people at the gas station liked.
Musgrave said the stories she heard of struggles in the face of $4-per-gallon gas were dramatic.
A young married mother said she quit her job because driving to work in Fort Collins and day care became too expensive.
Musgrave suggested an energy initiative on the scale of the NASA program that put astronauts on the Moon.
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July 3, 2008
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Suggest removal
sheepherder writes:
How about getting rid of the federal gas tax, and taking away the tax incentives for the oil companies? Consumers get lower gas prices, the government gets it's tax money from the oil companies (about 13 billion a year), and the oil companies have to drop CEO pay from 68 million to 10 million. OK, the CEO loses in this scenario, but who cares?