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Kevin Cramer: “I want to address the climate change issue because I think it is an important issue to a lot of people. The argument…”

On the recordJanuary 9, 2015
I want to address the climate change issue because I think it is an important issue to a lot of people. The argument that the other side makes is based on the false idea that somehow oil sands are not going to be developed without the United States. It is. Moving anything by rail is 1.9 times more the emissions of CO<INF>2</INF> than moving it by pipeline. Moving it by truck creates 2.8 times the CO<INF>2</INF> emissions as moving it by pipeline. Moving it by barge to China is priceless.
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Kevin Cramer
Republican · North Dakota
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Jan 9, 2015

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