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.
Ed Markey: “Even as American soldiers are fighting and dying to protect oil supplies in the Middle East, he thinks that it's the…”
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Markey criticizes the American Petroleum Institute's stance on crude oil exports amidst military conflicts.
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