John Hoeven: “We can double the production out of the shale.”

“And we think we can double the life of those coal plants at a time when we badly need electricity and We can double the production out of the shale. And just in our state, that's over 5 billion barrels of oil that we've gotten so far. So it has huge implications for energy, not only for our state, but, you know, know for the country.” (01:04–01:08)

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