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John W. Peterson: “In fairness to those countries, they're producing more and more energy, and we have chosen not to produce very much of…”

On the recordMay 20, 2008
In fairness to those countries, they're producing more and more energy, and we have chosen not to produce very much of our own only in the whole entire fields. And yet we pass a bill so we think we can sue them because they're not producing enough? I find that interesting. The bill ought to be that the American public can sue us because we've locked up our resources and forced them to buy foreign expensive energy.
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John W. Peterson
Pennsylvania

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Discussing energy production and foreign energy dependence.

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