Affordable Fuel for Consumers Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6009
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2008-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alaska
Animals
Antitrust law
Armed Forces and National Security
Cartels
Coastal zone
Commerce
Continental shelf
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Energy development
Energy prices
Energy supplies
Environmental Protection
Excise tax
Export controls
Federal-state relations
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Gas in submerged lands
Gas industry
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Impact aid
Income tax
Investment tax credit
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Motor vehicle pollution control
Natural gas
Oil and gas leases
Oil and gas royalties
Oil shales
Ozone
Petroleum
Petroleum in submerged lands
Petroleum industry
Petroleum reserves
Prospecting
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Reformulated gasoline
Revenue sharing
Strategic materials
Tax deductions
Tax exemption
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works
Wildlife refuges

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: 
Affordable Fuel for Consumers Act of 2008 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should stop filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) until the price of petroleum no longer has a major adverse impact upon the national economy.
 
Amends the Clean Air Act to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to give preference to approval of state implementation plan provisions if they require the use of either: (1) certain reformulated gasoline; or (2) gasoline having a specified Reid Vapor Pressure for the high ozone season.
 

 
Amends the Sherman Act to prohibit actions of a foreign entity that impact upon the market, supply, price, or distribution in the United States of oil, natural gas, or any other petroleum product.
 

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to set forth: (1) a 60-day suspension of taxes on highway motor fuels; (2) a temporary expensing of property pertaining to oil and natural gas exploration and production; and (3) an investment tax credit on property for oil shale extraction and processing. 
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish and implement procedures for a competitive oil and gas leasing program on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Coastal Plain).
 
Provides for federal and state distribution of revenues from the oil and natural gas leasing program.

Authorizes the Secretary to provide local government impact aid and community service assistance to certain affected Alaska entities.

Terminates prohibitions on expenditures for, and withdrawals from, offshore leasing for oil and gas.

Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to: (1) prohibit the Secretary from granting oil or natural gas leases within 25 miles of a state coastline; (2) require state approval for leasing oil and natural gas located within 50 miles of such state; and (3) share federal bonus bids and royalties on submerged lands located within the seaward boundaries of a state.

Prohibits exportation of crude oil from the Alaska North Slope.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2008-05-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, the Judiciary, Ways and Means, and Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, the Judiciary, Ways and Means, and Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, the Judiciary, Ways and Means, and Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, the Judiciary, Ways and Means, and Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, the Judiciary, Ways and Means, and Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, the Judiciary, Ways and Means, and Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House