Article: SPR set-aside plan 'discriminatory' to domestic refiners, says Ashland. (Strategic Petroleum Reserve; Ashland Oil Inc.) (Brief Article)

Ashland Oil Inc. polled 41 refiners in an effort to factor out the potential financial impact of the 1-percent set-aside plan contained in the House energy bill.

The survey determined that the set-aside proposal is "discriminatory" towards U.S. refiners, especially the smaller ones, says Will Haddeland, Ashland Oil's director of federal government relations.

The complete list of the refiners who Ashland surveyed in its attempt to gauge the full effects of a set-aside on individual refiners is presented below.

The set-aside plan calls for refiners to contribute 1 percent of their domestic and imported crude purchases, and 1 percent of their ...

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