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. 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. (53:10–53:19)
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Asserts that marginal wells in Michigan produce about five barrels a day and there are 700,000 such wells in the U.S.
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