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Don Nickles: If you no longer allowed intangible drilling costs to be expensed, you would shut down the shale revolution.

On the recordJune 11, 2012
If you no longer allowed intangible drilling costs to be expensed, you would shut down the shale revolution.
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Don Nickles
Oklahoma

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Nickles emphasizes the importance of expensing intangible drilling costs for the energy sector.

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