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Pete Domenici: But when the Senator from Minnesota talks about a goal of saving oil and the bill before us has savings of gasoline, I…

On the recordJune 12, 2007
But when the Senator from Minnesota talks about a goal of saving oil and the bill before us has savings of gasoline, I just wonder if he knows that most of the crude oil goes to gasoline in the United States. That is a fact, isn't it? Most of the crude oil we import, that we bring into our country to go to refineries, is turned into gasoline and used by automobiles.
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Pete Domenici

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Discussing the relationship between crude oil imports and gasoline production during Senate debate.

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