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On the recordMarch 19, 2012
More drilling, building a new tar sands pipeline or developing oil shale has not reduced gasoline prices in Canada and it won't in the United States either.
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Henry Waxman
Democratic · California

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Waxman argues that increased drilling won't lower gasoline prices.

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