The Pentagon may soon get authority to build a "military only" refinery on one its newly closed bases, a move some members of Congress hope will better insulate U.S. defenses from gas shortages.
Even though the first Energy Bill was passed less than two months ago, back-to-back hurricanes and $3-a-gallon gas prices have members scrambling to rewrite it, with Republicans pushing wording to strongly encourage building new refineries on U.S. soil and further relax environmental regulations that had survived in the first energy bill
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