Because of the extraordinary advances in technology that we have made in the U.S., we are likely to be a net natural gas exporter as soon as 2020. I have got to make a decision, an executive decision broadly about whether or not we export liquefied natural gas at all.
Obama discusses the potential for the U.S. to export natural gas due to technological advances.
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