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Jim Inhofe: “The biggest problem in getting the wind from where the wind blows to where the people live who want that electricity is…”

On the recordAugust 4, 2015
The biggest problem in getting the wind from where the wind blows to where the people live who want that electricity is the environmentalists who are blocking the building of the transmission lines to carry that energy.
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Jim Inhofe
Republican · Oklahoma

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Inhofe blames environmentalists for obstructing wind energy transmission.

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