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On the recordJuly 19, 2012
I have a question to the author of the amendment and to those who are supporting it on the other side. In listening to your discussion, you seem to be in a posture of the military--Navy in this case, and I suppose other branches--having access to alternate fuels. You spoke specifically of coal-based fuels. Are you speaking of all kinds of alternative fuels and that the military should pursue those fuels so that they might be available to pursue them in their development phase as well as when they are fully developed?
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John Garamendi
Democratic · California

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