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Mike Rogers: “They're trying to shut down the pumps, those single, you…”

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 52:58

And they can get along with eagle, if I remember correct. And so they ended up shutting down. They hate methane. They absolutely hate methane. They're trying to shut down the pumps, those single, you know, marginal wells, they want to shut those down in four years. Let me tell you why that's a problem. I didn't know this before I started poking around with this, that those marginal wells, on average in Michigan, about five barrels a day, there are 700,000 of those wells across the United States. (52:58–53:07)

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