House Energy Committee Chairman Joe Barton (R-Texas) has proposed the government build a “Pentagon-only” refinery to provide refined petroleum products solely for the Defense [sic] Department. In response, bless them, Democrats have proposed that the US government create a Strategic Refinery Reserve, that is, build (and, I suppose, own and operate) refining equivalent to 5% of current capacity, to ensure “adequate” gasoline and deisel in the event of, well, some kind of crisis. The Dems proposal would “set-aside” some production from that extra 5% for the Pentagon. Gotta have its fuel for war. In more legislative silliness from the energy … Continue reading Congress to the Rescue