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"It's designed to protect Big Oil while mistakenly believing that drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will solve America's energy problems," said Jim Manley, a spokesman for Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada.

The GOP plan also would repeal some recently enacted tax breaks for oil companies, ease permits for refinery expansion, provide tax breaks for development of gas-electric hybrid cars and give authority for the Transportation Department to increase auto fuel economy, although it would not require such increases.

While at a gas station appearance in Biloxi, Miss., he said he welcomed any action by Congress to give him authority to change the auto fuel economy requirements as it recently did with small trucks.

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