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Doc Hastings: “It is unfortunate that the threat of $4 or $5 gasoline has to be the impetus for this conversation.”

On the recordMarch 30, 2011
It is unfortunate that the threat of $4 or $5 gasoline has to be the impetus for this conversation.
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Doc Hastings
Republican · Washington

Editor's note · Context

Hastings remarks on the urgency of addressing rising gasoline prices.

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