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Barack Obama: The Energy Security Trust is a common-sense proposal to use some of the revenue that we obtain in the form of royalties…

On the recordMarch 14, 2013
The Energy Security Trust is a common-sense proposal to use some of the revenue that we obtain in the form of royalties from offshore oil and gas production and invest it in research dedicated to alternative forms of energy.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Press Gaggle by Principal Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest

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