COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) – Several Georgia lawmakers are raising concerns over an oil deal involving Georgia gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson as reported by Bloomberg. The report outlines a $20-million dollar loan given to support an oil refinery in Texas. Bloomberg reports the refinery also has a pending deal to supply oil to India. Georgia House Minority Leader Carolyn Hugley, Representative Debbie Buckner and State House candidate Marquese Averett argued at a Thursday news conference that sending fuel overseas contributes to higher costs for local families. “If you want to part of solutions and whatever happens around you, you have to be engaged in this process. Vote for your children, and your children’s children,” Hugley told those in attendance. The refinery in question is not currently in operation with production slated to begin in 2029 according to the Bloomberg report. A spokesman for the Jackson campaign issued a response that reads: “Joe Biden named Keisha Lance Bottoms as his Senior Advisor on the very day gas prices hit the highest level in American history, and on their watch oil from America’s emergency reserve was shipped to India and China while Georgians paid record prices at the pump. Now she and her allies are lying about Rick Jackson for supporting the first new American refinery in fifty years, which will bolster U.S. supply and drive down energy costs. Only Keisha Lance Bottoms would work for the people who sent our oil overseas and then attack the…
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