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Richard Shelby: “The export ban on crude oil was from the very beginning a deeply perverse policy implemented in a futile attempt to…”

On the recordJuly 27, 2015
The export ban on crude oil was from the very beginning a deeply perverse policy implemented in a futile attempt to mitigate the perverse effects of other Government policies.
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Richard Shelby
Republican · Alabama

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Critique of the crude oil export ban as ineffective government policy.

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