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On the recordOctober 5, 2015
mandating a massive, inefficient and inflexible sell off of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve years in advance is just one more bad idea for how to finance government.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Criticizing proposals to sell off the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as ineffective and harmful.

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