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Ed Markey: “Even as American soldiers are fighting and dying to protect oil supplies in the Middle East, he thinks that it's the…”

On the recordJuly 10, 2012
Even as American soldiers are fighting and dying to protect oil supplies in the Middle East, he thinks that it's the American Petroleum Institute--or we should really now just call it the World Petroleum Institute because that's really who he is representing--thinks that we should seriously consider exporting American crude oil.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Markey criticizes the American Petroleum Institute's stance on crude oil exports amidst military conflicts.

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