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The oil markets appears very nervous about the Iranian situation. Iran's production is essential for meeting world demand. There is not enough excess capacity within OPEC to make up for the lost supply if Iran were to stop selling oil.


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ED MARKEY You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
ED MARKEY Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety stan...
ED MARKEY The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.
ED MARKEY People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by th...
ED MARKEY It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventa...
ED MARKEY The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have...
ED MARKEY We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in ...
ED MARKEY In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Kar...
ED MARKEY However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also criti...
ED MARKEY Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel ec...
ED MARKEY First responders will be on the frontlines if there is a terrorist attack in our communities, and we...
ED MARKEY Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and w...
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