Jennifer A. Dlouhy
WASHINGTON — Companies should be allowed to widely export American oil and natural gas, the nation’s top business lobbying group said Wednesday.
The Chamber of Commerce made the case for virtually unchecked exports of the fossil fuels to countries that are members of the World Trade Organization and offered a host of other recommendations designed to harness the economic potential of U.S. energy in a broad new policy paper.
“We should have a free energy market out there which would benefit our industry, provide more markets for our industry and make sure we are able to reap the value of all our resources,” said Karen Harbert, head of the Chamber’s Institute for 21st Century Energy. “We need to look at ways to be able to export crude over time.”
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