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Markey: Trump’s out of gas on Iran

U.S. Sen. Ed Markey used a stop outside a gas station in Malden last week to take a double-shot at President Donald Trump over rising prices at the pump and the Republican administration’s opposition to alternative energy.

Dan Gatti, a transportation policy expert at the Acadia Center, said the joint U.S./Israeli campaign in Iran and the ongoing war in Ukraine underscore the same problem: The world remains too dependent on fossil fuels.

“Here in New England, we spend $75 billion per year on energy and fuel, most of which is spent on oil and gas, which comes from outside our region,” Gatti said. “When energy prices spike, some politicians reach for gimmicks like cutting energy efficiency programs or asking ratepayers to subsidize more fossil fuel infrastructure. But making consumers pay for gas pipelines will increase costs, not decrease them.”

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