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Ed Markey: When you look at the $1 trillion that big oil will never receive from American consumers and the 12 billion barrels of…

On the recordJuly 31, 2018
When you look at the $1 trillion that big oil will never receive from American consumers and the 12 billion barrels of oil that they will never produce under the current standards, it becomes pretty clear why big oil would want to attack these standards.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey connects big oil's interests to the push against fuel economy standards.

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