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Carl Marlinga: “The only way to do that long term is to have the United…”

Featuring: Carl Marlinga, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. House Michigan, District 10

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Democrat candidate for Congress Carl Marlinga talks oil, inflation and abortion

Published | Video Starts at 07:47

And there's no honest way to look at this and say that we can ever get control of inflation unless we get control of the price of oil and gas. And The only way to do that long term is to have the United States tell the OPEC countries that we are going to the clean, new green energy sources, wind, solar, tidal, the heat from the earth. all of these will produce a far more efficient way of heating, driving automobiles. And when OPEC knows this, when they know that that threat is real, that we can … (07:47–08:02)

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Asserts that the U.S. must commit to green energy to influence OPEC and control oil prices.

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