Congressman Barton, chief sponsor of the bill, argues repealing the ban on crude oil exports would increase domestic production, create jobs, and decrease the price consumers pay at the pump.
Congressman Green says he has reservations about an outright repeal of the ban.
We talk with Christopher Ross, Executive Professor of Finance at the C.T. Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston, on why thereâs an interest now to repeal a ban put in place forty years ago, and whatâs potentially at stake for Houston.