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On the recordDecember 11, 2023
If more fossil fuel production meant lower costs, why is it that today, while American oil and gas production is at a record high, home energy costs continue to go up?
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York
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Questioning the assumption that increased fossil fuel production lowers energy costs.

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