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On the recordSeptember 18, 2023
What do you make of this argument that we can simply drill our way to lower gas prices, that we can just drill, and drill, and extract, and extract on Federal and public lands, and somehow that is going to lower our fossil fuel prices?
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York

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Ocasio-Cortez questions the effectiveness of drilling to reduce gas prices.

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