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Allen wants
closed military
bases used as
oil refineries
As a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Senator George Allen (R-VA) recently introduced legislation that would help relieve high gas prices for Virginia and American families by boosting the nation’s oil refinery capacity while finding new uses for scuttled military bases, an initiative Senator Allen calls “vital to the nation’s energy independence.”
The legislation entitled, “Bolster Our Energy Security for Tbmorrow” seeks to increase the number of oil refineries in the nation by directing the government to identify three military bases that can be retrofitted to be used as oil refineries. Such an initiative is needed, says Senator Allen, “to finally get new, technologically advanced refineries built in this country which is so important to reduce gasoline prices for all Americans.”
The last significant oil refinery to be built in the United States was more than twenty years ago. After the recent storms on America’s Gulf Coast where oil refinery was affected, the need to increase production capacity became painfully evident to Virginia and American families who saw fuel prices at the pump skyrocket.
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