U.S. House Speaker John Boehner wrote in a Pennsylvania newspaper the nation’s oil sector is headed for a “brick wall” in the form of a crude oil export ban. “For all its success, this energy boom is currently running into a brick wall in the form of … federal government policies that date back to the 1970s,” Boehner wrote in the (Pittsburgh) News-Tribune-Review. Boehner, his Republican colleagues, led by Sen. Lisa Murkowski , R-Alaska, and some Democrats, notably Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., have moved several pieces of legislation aimed at overturning the 1970s ban on the export of domestic crude oil. The ban was enacted after Arab members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting […]