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Joe Biden: “Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.”

On the recordJuly 30, 2012
Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware

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Biden's statement on the impact of cap-and-trade on electricity rates.

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