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Pete Sessions: “I guess the point is, these are supposedly our friends who triple the price we have to pay for oil. We have to pay three…”

On the recordOctober 31, 2001
I guess the point is, these are supposedly our friends who triple the price we have to pay for oil. We have to pay three times as much money to foreign sources, and we get no more oil than we did the day before they drove it up?
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Pete Sessions
Republican · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the rising oil prices and foreign oil dependency.

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