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Bernie Sanders: what we are proposing is that 2 million barrels be available to be released at the discretion of any President, the…

On the recordJune 15, 2000
what we are proposing is that 2 million barrels be available to be released at the discretion of any President, the President, when heating oil prices zoom up. And what experts tell us and what we know to be the fact is that that will have an impact on those prices and in fact lower them.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Discussing a proposal to release oil reserves to address rising heating oil prices.

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