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Robert Weygand: “It is not only with home heating oil. It is also with regard to diesel, and it is also with regard to energy…”

On the recordJune 15, 2000
It is not only with home heating oil. It is also with regard to diesel, and it is also with regard to energy conservation and weatherization, the program we talked about earlier. We need to have it, but we need this amendment now; and I ask my colleagues to support it.
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Robert Weygand
Rhode Island

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Discussing the need for an amendment related to energy conservation and heating oil.

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