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SPECIAL ISSUE:
LEASING
The National Newspaper of the Liquid and Dry Bulk Transportation Industry
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Active first year for tank
safety group
by John Cannon
This month
the Cargo Tank
Risk Management
Committee
(CTRMC) is
convening once
again, this time in
Decatur, Ill.
Fuel groups targeting
speculators
Ferrellgas pushing auto-
gas option
NY fuel-oil test hits snag
Trade associations representing
gasoline marketers and home
heating fuel dealers recently issued a
national call for meaningful limits on
speculation in the energy commodity
markets.
In a grassroots call to action,
Arlington, Va.- based Petroleum
Marketers Association of America
(PMAA) called on the Commodity
Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
to strengthen and approve proposed
rules that would set limits on the
size of positions that speculators can
Despite a challenge from President
Barack Obama to the nation’s largest
fleet owners to help reduce U.S. oil
imports by one third by 2025 using a
number of viable alternative fuels,
Congress is currently only reviewing
legislation that would provide federal
incentives for natural gas vehicles.
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