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Joe Barton: “If we let the producers have the option of putting that oil on the world market, the consumer in the United States could…”

On the recordJune 1, 2015
If we let the producers have the option of putting that oil on the world market, the consumer in the United States could potentially benefit from the world price going down.
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Joe Barton
Republican · Texas

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Barton argues that allowing oil exports could lower U.S. gasoline prices.

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