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The Economics and Geopolitics of Fracking w/ Bethany McLean (Perch Pod Repost)

The Jacob Shapiro Podcast

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The Importance of Energy Exports in the United States

There was a ban on oil exports since the 1970s when America first began to worry about its dependence on foreign oil. It got overturned in the final days of the Obama administration as part of the omnibus spending bill at the end of 2015. Being able to export natural gas certainly weakens Russia's stranglehold over Europe, or at least theoretically should.

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