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Brad Sherman: “If we can drive down the price of oil and diminish the world's dependence upon the Middle East, we might avoid the next…”

On the recordSeptember 7, 2016
If we can drive down the price of oil and diminish the world's dependence upon the Middle East, we might avoid the next Iraq war and the environmental degradation that that involves.
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Brad Sherman
Democratic · California

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Sherman discusses the global impact of U.S. oil production on geopolitical stability.

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