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Ed Markey: “How crazy is that, to export the oil we have when we are still importing five million barrels a day.”

On the recordJuly 13, 2015
How crazy is that, to export the oil we have when we are still importing five million barrels a day.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Markey criticizes the contradiction of exporting oil while still importing it.

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