Pryor: Bipartisan group working on energy bill (UALR Public Radio) - Senator Mark Pryor says he hopes a bipartisan energy bill he's working on will end partisan bickering on the topic in Congress.

Pryor says the roughly 200-page bill that a group of 16 Democratic and Republican senators are developing will address the issue of high gas prices. Senators backing the bill include Pryor and fellow Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln. Both are Democrats.

The proposal would allow for more offshore drilling off the coasts of Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia if those states consent to it. It would require that by 2020, 85 percent of all new vehicles sold in the United States run on non-petroleum fuel.

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