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NYC_SKP

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2. People who actually know about the energy industry, or industries, would not say that.

Reply to pipoman (Reply #1)

Sat Jun 14, 2014, 11:27 PM

Jun 2014

Your statement is flat wrong, Obama does not support that, it is a status quo, nothing new, and steps are being taken to more carefully regulate the admixtures in fracking fluids, but working to kill big coal is a significant reform in the energy industry.

Between his support for solar, including Solyndra, and Tesla and others, we see a hybrid between a progressive and a realist doing more than any president since Carter to do the right thing.

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