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Byron Dorgan: “We in North Dakota, for example, use exactly twice as much fuel as the average New Yorker does.”

On the recordOctober 20, 2009
We in North Dakota, for example, use exactly twice as much fuel as the average New Yorker does.
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota

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Dorgan highlights the disparity in fuel usage between regions and its implications.

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