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Obama Touts Domestic Drilling in Vegas Speech: U.S. is the “Saudi Arabia” of Natural Gas

HeadlineJan 27, 2012

President Obama continues his post-State of the Union speaking tour with a swing through Western states. On Thursday, Obama told a crowd in Las Vegas he hopes to boost domestic energy production, including drilling for natural gas.

President Obama: “The experts believe it could support more than 600,000 jobs by the end of the decade. We, it turns out, are the Saudi Arabia of natural gas. We’ve got a lot of it. We’ve got a lot of it. America will develop this resource without putting the health and safety of our citizens at risk. But we’ve got to keep at it. We’ve got to take advantage of this incredible natural resource.”

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