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John Garamendi: “I really agree with all you said. And as we make that bridge to that clean energy future--you talked about those 50-year…”

On the recordMarch 12, 2013
I really agree with all you said. And as we make that bridge to that clean energy future--you talked about those 50-year increments as we change from one source of energy to another. In that process, we, American taxpayers, seriously subsidized each and every one of those transitions. We now have to shift, it seems to me, shift some of those subsidies from the old energy sources, specifically oil, and shift that into long-term subsidies, encouragement to those clean energy issues. If we do that, I think we'll see that kind of growth that you're talking about.
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John Garamendi
Democratic · California
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Mar 12, 2013

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