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HR 3641 106th Congress House

Home Heating Fuel Price Spike Act of 2000

Official title: To require the Secretary of Energy to study causes of the recent home heating fuel price spikes in the Northeast and to create a 10,000,000 barrel heating oil reserve in the Northeast.

Introduced: February 16, 2000 See on congress.gov
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Feb 17, 2000
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
Feb 10, 2000
Referred to the House Committee on Commerce.
Feb 10, 2000
Introduced in House
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 Latest action February 17, 2000

Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Home Heating Fuel Price Spike Act of 2000 - Instructs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) conduct a study to identify reasons for the home heating fuel shortage and its corresponding price surge in the northeast region, (2) propose alternatives to alleviate future shortages; and (3) establish a heating oil reserve in various northeast regions. Permits those reserves to be filled by trading petroleum products from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for heating oil.

Authorizes the President to immediately drawdown heating oil from such reserves to address severe home heating price fluctuations, or at any other time to serve the national interest.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 2
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HOUGHTON, AMO
· Feb 16, 2000
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Sanders, Bernard
Vermont · Feb 16, 2000
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 3641: Home Heating Fuel Price Spike Act of 2000. 106th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HR-3641/
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