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Garret Graves: “We are in a bind now because we can't prepare for this. We are going to cut off oil energy, or we are going to cut off…”

On the recordMarch 7, 2022
We are in a bind now because we can't prepare for this. We are going to cut off oil energy, or we are going to cut off energy from Russia, and we can't backfill it.
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Garret Graves
Republican · Louisiana

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Graves discusses the energy crisis and reliance on foreign dictators.

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