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On the recordApril 23, 2008
one point that I would like to make at this time is that the gentleman talks about oil and talks about energy, but the thing that he fails to point out is that gas and oil are limited, they are not going to be there forever. We need to stop our reliance upon fossil fuels, upon gas and oil, and start to focus on renewable alternative energy and become less dependent on foreign oil, less reliant upon fossil fuels.
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Michael Arcuri
New York

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Discussing the need to transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.

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