Ken Salazar actually said...

we ought not to have idle acreage that is sitting out there, and we ought to do everything we can to move forward with encouraging oil and gas production in the right places and in the right ways

Context

Salazar advocates for reducing idle land to promote oil and gas production.

11/15/2011

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