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Has anyone seen this? What do you think? Big deal? Or not? Citing projections that natural gas will cost Americans an average of 22% more this winter than last, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden asked Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman to review and revoke the Department of Energy’s recent order authorizing the export of 98.1 billion cubic feet of Alaskan natural gas -- enough gas to meet the needs of 1.4 million American families -- to Japan other Pacific Rim countries.
“It is hard to see how the Department concluded that the proposed export of Alaskan natural gas met the required public interest test with regard to either Alaskan or lower-48 energy needs,” wrote Wyden. “For the Department to categorically reject an opportunity to provide additional supplies of energy to American consumers, both in Alaska and on the West Coast at a time of record energy prices, and instead let these companies send that energy to overseas markets, demands a Secretarial-level review.”
Link (http://wyden.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=302677& - broken link)
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