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Fuel for Debate: Pelosi Suggests Natural Gas Isn't a Fossil Fuel

Posted on August 25, 2008

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seemed to suggest in a television interview Sunday that natural gas isn't a fossil fuel.From the post on the Journal's Washington Wire by Journal reporter John D. McKinnon:On NBCs Meet the Press on Sunday, the speaker twice seemed to suggest that natural gas an energy source she favors is not a fossil fuel.I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels, she said at one point. Natural gas is cheap, abundant and clean compared to fossil fuels, she said at another.Rep. Pelosi's spokesman later said the speaker knows natural gas is a fossil fuel...

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economy , fossil fuel , fossil fuels , natural gas , policies
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