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On the recordNovember 21, 2011
All sources, energy program in the United States, designed once again to create a surplus of energy here so we can say to the Europeans, pretty cheerfully, all of the various sources of oil we have in the United States we could literally replace the Iranian oil.
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Newt Gingrich
Republican · Georgia

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Gingrich discusses U.S. energy production as a means to pressure Iran regarding its nuclear program.

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