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Ed Markey: Subsidies for oil and no subsidies for wind is market-based? I don't think so.

On the recordSeptember 12, 2012
Subsidies for oil and no subsidies for wind is market-based? I don't think so.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey criticizes the disparity in subsidies between oil and renewable energy.

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