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Jared Huffman: Whenever we talk about doing something the fossil fuel industry doesn't like, we hear this trope that, oh, we are going…

On the recordSeptember 30, 2020
Whenever we talk about doing something the fossil fuel industry doesn't like, we hear this trope that, oh, we are going to lose our energy independence and we will have to go on bended knee to Putin and the Saudis.
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Jared Huffman
Democratic · California

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Huffman critiques the narrative around energy independence and fossil fuel industry influence.

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