Edward Markey: “The oil and gas industry is saying is that we'll produce…”

“Home heating oil, a buck 30. It has gone up over the last 46 days. That is the price that's being paid. And at the same time, what The oil and gas industry is saying is that we'll produce more oil, we'll produce more gas here in the United States. States, more pollutants, more money for the oil and gas industry. George Orwell, he wrote in his book 1984 that he was going to ask this question.” (10:01–10:08)

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