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On the recordMarch 20, 2012
You have to be aggressively and deliberately ignorant of the world economy not to know and understand that clean energy technologies are going to play a huge role in the 21st century.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Press Gaggle by Press Secretary Jay Carney

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