In the latest blow to the coalition behind cap and trade, small
oil refiners who broke with the oil industry to support the
Waxman-Markey energy bill -- after House Democrats added a
provision favorable to them -- now
oppose it advancing in the Senate. The Hill quotes
one such company's CEO as saying, "We agreed only that the
legislative process should move forward, with a view toward
working subsequently with the Senate. We did not agree to support
H.R. 2454."