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Dick Durbin's Public Statements on Issue: Oil and Gas

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12/02/2022 Tweet - "By making E15 available year-round, the Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act will help Illinois drivers save money at the pump by choosing low-carbon & home-grown ethanol, support Illinois farmers, and reduce our dependence on OPEC."
10/11/2022 Tweet - "The NOPEC Act passed in the Judiciary Committee w/ a bipartisan vote in May. Saudi Arabia's collusion w/ Putin to fix prices will increase gas prices for Americans at a time when inflation is high. The Senate must take action against price fixing by OPEC & pass this legislation."
03/10/2022 Tweet - "As the U.S. looks to move away from dependence on foreign oil, @SenDuckworth , @SenJohnThune , and I are calling on the Biden Administration to help lower the cost of fuel by permitting the year-round sale of E15 (ethanol)."
03/08/2022 Tweet - "I applaud @POTUS 's choice to ban Russian oil imports. We cannot continue to purchase millions of barrels of oil to help fund Putin's war. This is another important step in tightening economic pressure on Putin and his cowardly enablers and helping the brave Ukrainian people."
03/06/2022 Tweet - "Stop Russian oil exports to the United States. They represent only 4% of our oil needs but 14% of Russian world exports. We cannot let U.S. dollars fund Putin's devastating invasion of Ukraine."
01/07/2022 Tweet: Proud to join @SenMarkey this week in calling on the FERC to protect Illinoisans from outrageous energy bills. Keeping the heat on during colder winters shouldn't be a luxury.
02/17/2021 Tweet - "With arctic temperatures sweeping across Illinois & the U.S., @SenDuckworth & I are concerned that Illinois residents who rely on natural gas will be stuck with massive, unaffordable energy bills. We're asking the Biden Admin. to step in & provide them with support."
12/21/2020 Tweet - "Trump's Department of the Interior has proposed hundreds of oil & gas leases across Utah, threatening the fragile landscape and ecosystem. I'm leading a group of @SenateDems in calling on @Interior to cancel these leases immediately."
11/02/2020 Tweet - "Deeply concerned by reports that Nicor Gas may have illegally polluted groundwater near its storage facilities. Because of the severity of these claims, I will be looking into this situation further."
08/12/2020 Tweet - "Glad to see @BLMNational is no longer planning to lease land in Grand & San Juan County, Utah, for oil & gas development following my request last week. This will go a long way towards protecting these special places. #ProtectMoab"
08/07/2020 Tweet - ". @SecBernhardt 's upcoming oil & gas lease sale on UT's #PublicLands is bad business. The past 3 UT lease sales had low returns, with over half the land sold for just $2/acre, so I & 14 of my @SenateDems colleagues just asked him & #Pendley to cancel the sales & #ProtectMoab:"
07/15/2020 Tweet - "Disappointed, but not surprised that President Trump has decided to weaken the National Environmental Policy Act. This will silence the concerns of communities most affected by the power plants & pipelines the President is eager to build in their backyards."
03/11/2020 Tweet - "Corn growers, like @ilcorn , are integral to the IL economy & the federal gov't must offer certainty to farmers this planting season. It's time the President stops offering breaks to oil companies & instead supports the biofuel industry that so many of our corn growers depend on."
02/20/2020 Tweet - "The Bureau of Land Management must not be allowed to sell off America's Arctic for oil & gas development. It will destroy a diverse & unique ecosystem and accelerate climate change. I'm joining @SenJeffMerkley in urging the Bureau of Land Management to reconsider this decision."
12/19/2019 Tweet - "President Trump claims he loves ethanol and biodiesel. But after his watered-down Renewable Fuel Standards deal that fails to fully restore lost gallons and still allows oil refineries to stop blending biofuels, I say I'll believe it when I see it."
12/13/2019 Tweet - "It took decades to build up biofuels. But in two years the Trump Admin. has crippled this industry by issuing so many secret waivers to profitable big oil companies, destroying corn and soybean demand for biofuels. Another giant gap between this President's words and reality."
11/13/2019 Tweet - "Yesterday I joined my @SenateAgDems colleagues, @SenStabenow, @SenTinaSmith, and @AmyKlobuchar, to oppose funding language used by the Trump EPA to allow Big Oil to wreck ethanol and biodiesel."
10/29/2019 Tweet - "For decades, the fossil fuel industry has pumped money into the political process in order to block any meaningful action on climate change & to maintain their profit margins. Today, my @SenDemsClimate colleagues are holding a hearing to expose Big Oil's ongoing lies. Watch here:"
09/13/2019 Tweet - "The Trump Administration's plan to open up the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration is shortsighted and dangerous. We should be doing everything we can to protect our precious natural resources, not the opposite."
09/13/2019 Tweet - "The @EPA has given 81 waivers to oil refineries, ruining demand for ethanol and biodiesel, and destroying markets for corn and soybean farmers. I'm joining my @SenateDems colleagues in calling on the EPA to end this practice immediately."
09/11/2019 Tweet - "Thank you to the Illinoisans from @GrowthEnergy for presenting me with the Fueling Growth Award for my ethanol support. EPA snuck 81 waivers to oil refineries despite record profits, which closed 15 ethanol plants, hitting 2,500 rural jobs."
08/29/2019 Tweet - "Pres. Trump broke his E15 promise to farmers. By issuing numerous secret waivers to big oil companies that allow them to mix less ethanol into their gasoline, the President is driving down the demand for the soybeans & corn that these farmers rely on."
07/26/2019 Tweet - "I hope E15 is more than just another empty promise to farmers from this President. Read my op-ed on why the President's secret waivers to oil companies means less corn and soybeans used for ethanol and biodiesel:"
05/17/2019 Tweet - ".@ChuckGrassley is right: the Trump EPA misled farmers. EPA's secret waivers lets oil companies ignore ethanol, costs farmers $2 billion, and guts E15 demand."
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