{"id":39016,"date":"2014-10-27T09:57:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T14:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=39016"},"modified":"2014-10-27T09:57:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T14:57:13","slug":"midterm-elections-could-strengthen-opponents-of-crude-oil-export-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2014\/10\/27\/midterm-elections-could-strengthen-opponents-of-crude-oil-export-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Midterm Elections Could Strengthen Opponents of Crude Oil Export Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_37765\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37765\" alt=\" A tug boat navigates the Houston ship channel with a flare from an oil refinery and storage facility in the background south of downtown Houston\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2014\/07\/21969001_H16734857-300x185.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2014\/07\/21969001_H16734857-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2014\/07\/21969001_H16734857-620x383.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">REUTERS \/RICHARD CARSON \/LANDOV<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tug boat navigates the Houston ship channel with a flare from an oil refinery and storage facility in the background south of downtown Houston<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The campaign to end a 39-year ban on the export of most domestically produced crude oil has gathered momentum over the past week.\u00a0 First came a report from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gao.gov\/products\/GAO-14-807\" target=\"_blank\">Government Accountability Office<\/a>, indicating that removing the ban would boost domestic production by encouraging further investment. A few days later, fourteen independent oil producers joined to register the first lobbying group specifically aimed at lifting the embargo.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/173710413&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re probably tilting at windmills, but it\u2019s going to be a good try,\u201d says Barbara Shook, senior reporter-at-large for Energy Intelligence Group. \u201cThey\u2019ll have better luck after the November elections if the Republicans take control of both houses of the Congress. The Obama Administration is definitely against repealing the ban on exports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/news\/commerce-department-creaks-open-door-to-exports-of-crude-oil\/\" target=\"_blank\">Commerce Department<\/a>\u00a0issued a ruling in June that allowed limited exports of ultra-light crude oil, known as condensates. That led U.S. crude exports to spike in July to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eia.gov\/petroleum\/weekly\/archive\/2014\/141022\/includes\/analysis_print.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">401,000 barrels per day<\/a>,\u00a0the highest level in 57 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The campaign to end a 39-year ban on the export of most domestically produced crude oil has gathered momentum over the past week.\u00a0 First came a report from the\u00a0Government Accountability Office, indicating that removing the ban would boost domestic production by encouraging further investment. A few days later, fourteen independent oil producers joined to register [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59],"tags":[21],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39018,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39016\/revisions\/39018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}