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Mike Rogers: “If they shut those down, that's about 10% of our daily…”

Featuring: Mike Rogers, Conservative | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Michigan

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Mike Rogers roundtable with Michigan farmers in Hudsonville

Published | Video Starts at 53:30

If you start shutting them down like they plan to do, and it's over methane, even though it's not based on methane at the pump, it's based on what happened in Texas in the 1970s. Some government at work. If they shut those down, that's about 10% of our daily production of oil. What is that going to do to the price of energy? I mean, it makes no sense. Some of these things, they're not working in concert. They're working against each other. (53:30–53:35)

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