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On the recordJune 27, 2012
it's pretty obvious that the well for taxpayer-financed incentives for a variety of energy technologies is running dry really at every level of government.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden highlights the decline in taxpayer funding for energy technologies.

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