Heartland Daily Podcast – Bette Grande: $1.6 Trillion Omnibus Bill and Lifting Oil Export Ban

• Author
• Recent Posts

Isaac Orr

Research fellow at The Heartland Institute

Isaac Orr is a policy fellow at the Center of the American Experiment on mining and energy issues and a former research fellow for The Heartland Institute. Orr is a speaker, researcher, and freelance writer specializing in hydraulic fracturing, agricultural, and environmental policy.

Latest posts by Isaac Orr (see all)

• Colorado Must Keep the Comanche Power Plant Running at Full Steam - April 9, 2018
• WE Energies Values Corporate Profits More than Its Ratepayers - March 7, 2018
• Making Electricity Markets Competitive Again - March 5, 2018

Fiscal conservatives had mixed emotions, to say the least, about the $1.6 trillion omnibus budget bill that was corralled through Congress by Republicans and Democrats alike. Among the few bright spots of this pork-laden spending package was a provision to lift the crude oil export ban which has been in effect since the Carter administration.

Heartland Institute Research Fellows Bette Grande and Isaac Orr discuss the impact lifting the crude oil export ban will have on oil production in the United States, and how it may influence politics globally. In addition, Grande and Orr talk about the hefty cost taxpayers will dish out for the renewable energy subsidies that were attached to the bill by Democrats as a condition for supporting oil exports.

[Please subscribe to the Heartland Daily Podcast for free at this link.]