{"id":16125,"date":"2010-06-09T07:37:23","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T11:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=16125"},"modified":"2010-06-09T07:37:23","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T11:37:23","slug":"refining-industry-group-opposes-senate-increase-in-oil-spill-liability-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2010\/refining-industry-group-opposes-senate-increase-in-oil-spill-liability-tax.html","title":{"rendered":"Refining-Industry Group Opposes Senate Increase In Oil-Spill Liability Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dow Jones -A key oil-refining-industry organization is opposing a  provision in a Senate bill that would quintuple a federal tax  specifically used by agencies to clean up oil spills because it would  increase fuel costs for consumers.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the National  Petrochemical and Refiners Association sent a letter to Senators Harry  Reid (D., Nev.) and Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) opposing a provision that  would increase the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund tax from 8 cents a  gallon of crude oil to 41 cents a gallon. The bill passed by the U.S.  House of Representatives on May 28 had increased the tax to 34 cents a  gallon, which NPRA didn&#8217;t oppose.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/BT-CO-20100608-715668.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dow Jones -A key oil-refining-industry organization is opposing a provision in a Senate bill that would quintuple a federal tax specifically used by agencies to clean up oil spills because it would increase fuel costs for consumers. On Tuesday, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16127,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16125\/revisions\/16127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}