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On the recordMay 4, 2015
If we are reliant upon fossil fuel for 50 percent of the power to run this machine called America and they take that away, how do you run the machine called America?
Said by
Jim Inhofe
Republican · Oklahoma

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Inhofe questions the feasibility of reducing fossil fuel reliance for energy.

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