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Re: Oil Refining - Considering future eventualities versus the myopia of the present (letter #20)
Dear Members of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources,
You are in the process of drafting a comprehensive energy policy. According to Webster:
comprehensive
/kmpr!hensiv/
adjective
.
Doug Grandt
answerthecall@mac.com
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114TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
S. 1420
A BILL
To amend the Department of Energy Organization Act to
provide for the collection of information on critical energy
supplies, to establish a Working Group on Energy Markets, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
5 of 2015.
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SUPPLIES.
(n) COLLECTION
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(1) IN
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data, including
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(3) PROTECTION
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(1) the Secretary of Energy (referred to in this
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latory Commission;
(4) the Chairman of Federal Trade Commis-
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(5) the Chairman of the Securities and Ex-
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(7) the Administrator of the Energy Informa-
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(e) PURPOSE
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(g) COOPERATION OF OTHER AGENCIES.The heads
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(c) REPORT
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