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2000 CIS H 27168
TITLE: Summer
Energy Concerns for the American Consumer
CIS-NO: 2000-H271-68
SOURCE: Committee on Commerce. House
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DATE: June 28, 2000
LENGTH:
iii+324 p. il.
CONG-SESS: 106-2
ITEM-NO: 1019-A-01;
1019-B-01
SUDOC: Y4.C73/8:106-136
CIS DOCUMENT ON DEMAND:
1-800-227-2477 (Full Text Reproductions)
SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 106-136. Hearing to examine consumer energy concerns,
including concerns related to recent increases in gasoline
prices in the Midwest, and to review strategies to address
consumer energy cost and supply issues.
Supplementary material
(p. 150-324) includes correspondence, articles, submitted statements, witnesses'
written replies to Committee questions, tables, and graphs.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Gasoline price
increases and consumer energy concerns
DESCRIPTORS:
GASOLINE; ENERGY PRICES;
CONSUMERS; ENERGY REGULATION; STATISTICAL DATA: ENERGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION
00-H271-68 TESTIMONY NO: 1
June 28, 2000 p. 11-81
WITNESSES (and witness
notations):
PITOFSKY, ROBERT (Chairman, FTC)
BROWNER, CAROL M. (Administrator, EPA)
SLATER, RODNEY E. (Secretary, Transportation, DOT)
RICHARDSON, BILL (Secretary, Energy, DOE)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Overview of recent gasoline
price increase in the Midwest; examination of possible causes
contributing to gas price increase, including costs associated
with EPA environmental regulations requiring production of reformulated
gasoline; recommendations to address consumer energy concerns.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Gasoline price
increases and consumer energy concerns
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION; DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION;
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
00-H271-68 TESTIMONY NO: 2
June 28, 2000 p. 82-149, 186-305
WITNESSES
(and witness notations):
BRADLEY, JUSTIN D. (Director,
Environmental and Energy Programs, Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group)
BROWN, MARK H. (Executive Vice President, Association and
Club Services, AAA)
FRANK, J. LOUIS (President, Marathon
Ashland Petroleum LLC)
GALE, ROGER W. (President and CEO,
PHB Hagler Bailly)
GERKEN, MARC S. (President, American
Municipal Power-Ohio; also representing three other organizations)
NEMTZOW, DAVID M. (President, Alliance To Save Energy)
PILLARI, ROSS J. (Group Vice President, Marketing, BP
Amoco Group)
PORTS, MICHAEL (President, Ports Petroleum,
Inc.; representing National Association of Convenience Stores and Society of
Independent Gasoline Marketers)
THOMPSON, JERRY E. (Senior
Vice President, Development and Technological Excellence, CITGO Petroleum Corp)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Problems with
electric supply reliability; perspectives on gasoline market conditions,
focusing on recent price increase in the Midwest; examination
of possible causes contributing to gas price increase, with
details on costs associated with EPA reformulated gasoline environmental
regulation program; recommendations to address consumer energy concerns (related
materials, p. 95-98).
INSERTIONS:
a.
Kumins, Lawrence C. (CRS), "Midwest Gasoline Price Increases"
June 16, 2000, with table (p. 220-225).
b. Energy
Information Administration, "Update: A Year of Volatility -- Oil Markets and
Gasoline" June 20, 2000, with graphs (p. 235-251).
c.
Rosenberg, Morton (CRS), "Environmental Protection Agency Options for
Ameliorating the Effects of Reformulated Gas Requirements in
the Chicago/Milwaukee Area" June 28, 2000 (p. 253-262).
d.
Petroleum Industry Research Foundation, "Gasoline 101: A Politically Explosive
Topic" June 2000, with graphs and tables (p. 263-274).
CONTENT
NOTATION:
Gasoline price increases and
consumer energy concerns
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
OHIO MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION; ELECTRIC POWER;
PETROLEUM AND PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE; CHICAGO, ILL.;
MILWAUKEE, WIS.
LOAD-DATE: July 6, 2001
