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Robert C. Byrd: “Commercially feasible ways of converting coal to oil and gas must be developed as insurance against a long-term decline…”

On the recordApril 1, 1969
Commercially feasible ways of converting coal to oil and gas must be developed as insurance against a long-term decline in oil and gas reserves.
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
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Apr 1, 1969

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Speaking on the role of coal in national energy policy.

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