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Tom McClintock: Does it make much sense to you for the federal government to be obstructing the vast amounts of conventional energy that…

On the recordJune 25, 2013
Does it make much sense to you for the federal government to be obstructing the vast amounts of conventional energy that we have right within our own borders, while, at the same time, lavishing public funds on unreliable and extremely expensive forms of electricity generation that have been around for, in the case of solar, for 175 years, and have not yet proven themselves after all that time?
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Tom McClintock
Republican · California

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Questioning the government's support for expensive renewable energy over conventional energy sources.

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