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Paul Tonko: If oil companies apparently cannot handle the volume of valuable areas currently being offered, do you think that they…

On the recordMay 8, 2012
If oil companies apparently cannot handle the volume of valuable areas currently being offered, do you think that they could quickly and effectively develop new areas where there is little or no existing infrastructure, such as off the East and West Coast, as the Majority has proposed?
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Paul Tonko
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Questioning the feasibility of new offshore oil development.

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