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On the recordMarch 6, 2019
Ironically, it may have been saved from outright extinction by--wait for it--fossil fuels, which made whale oil obsolete.
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Tom McClintock
Republican · California

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McClintock argues that fossil fuels helped save the right whale from extinction.

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