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Edward Markey: “The proposal which Obama put on the books that backs out 3…”

Featuring: Edward Markey, Democratic | U.S. Senate Massachusetts

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Nashoba Valley Chamber Present: Virtual Conversation with US Senator Ed Markey

Published | Video Starts at 16:32

We have to say we need more fuel economy standards so that we need less and less and less oil. If they just continue to implement, which Trump is not, he's trying to roll back the standard, The proposal which Obama put on the books that backs out 3 million barrels of oil a day. So that just dramatically reduces the number of pipelines, the amount of oil it has to go through it, the risk that we would have to run to have that oil in pristine natural park areas across the country. (16:32–16:41)

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Asserts that Obama's proposal reduces oil consumption by 3 million barrels a day.

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