OMEGA News - OMEGA - West Virginia Oil Marketers & Grocers Association

Details: Press; April 14, 2013

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Today, 4,000 West Virginia children receive out-of-home care. In addition, 1,200 children are need to be adopted.

The West Virginia Oil Marketers & Grocers Association (OMEGA) is leading a statewide campaign to raise money for the Children's Home Society of West Virginia to help those children. The campaign will last through Mother's Day on May 12.

Details: Press; December 11, 2012

Notice of Determination of Average Wholesale Price of Motor Fuel for the period of January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2013 for purposes of the West Virginia Motor Fuel Excise Tax.

Details: Press; July 06, 2012

Monday, July 2, 2012, A-B External Announcement

Anheuser-Busch provided 8,624 cases of drinking water — or 206,976 cans — for use by relief workers and residents affected by recent storms and power outages throughout West Virginia. Four trucks loaded with water left Cartersville, Ga., and arrived Wednesday to assist impacted communities and relief efforts. “Relief workers and people in the community are in need of fresh drinking water as they work to recover from the storms, and this is one way Anheuser-Busch and our local wholesalers can help,” said Peter Kraemer, vice president of Supply for Anheuser-Busch. Since 1988, Anheuser-Busch has donated more than 71 million cans of drinking water following natural and other disasters. Helping communities cope with disasters has been an Anheuser-Busch tradition since 1906 when Adolphus Busch made a donation to victims of the San Francisco earthquake. Today, in addition to providing monetary support, Anheuser-Busch packages fresh drinking water and donates it to emergency relief organizations for distribution to those in need.

Details: Press; February 03, 2012

Wetlines Study Included

Today, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will hold a markup on its recently released highway reauthorization bill known as the “American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act” (H.R. 7). The five-year $260 billion surface transportation bill would be paid by tapping royalties from oil and gas drilling on public lands and federal waters and would cut some transportation programs to pay for the reauthorization. However, oil and gas drilling is a contentious congressional issue and may not make it into the final bill when the House and Senate reconcile differences. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected this week that the trust fund would be insolvent by 2013 assuming current spending levels.

The House Ways and Means Committee will mark up the their portion of the Highway reauthorization bill which includes the 18.3 cents-per-gallon gasoline tax, the 24.4 cents-per-gallon diesel tax and the .001 cents-per-gallon leaking underground storage tank tax. It is likely that the motor fuels excise tax and the LUST tax will remain the same and would be reauthorized for the next five years.