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On the recordJune 21, 2016
However, most of this trend is due to sharply increased domestic oil production--something that few imagined was even possible during the Congressional debates over the RFS.
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Ed Whitfield
Republican · Kentucky

Editor's note · Context

Whitfield discusses the decline in oil imports and its relation to domestic production, not the RFS.

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