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Ed Markey: Is this because more and more of the oil we are extracting today is coming from hard-to-reach sources like deep ocean…

On the recordJune 13, 2017
Is this because more and more of the oil we are extracting today is coming from hard-to-reach sources like deep ocean drilling, shale, and tar sands?
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey asks about the reasons for lower lifecycle carbon emissions from ethanol.

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