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This for some time. why did the obama administration cave in and basically follow exactly what the bush administration, and before the clinton administration had done? >> i think to a large extent this was a political calculation on climate legislation. that they had run against the drill, baby, drill crowd. this was a way to appease that crowd and buy into votes on climate legislation. as was said before they traded a short-term environmental catastrophe to try to get a long-term environmental good. and that has proved to be a real miscalculation. >> andrew ross sorkin, they bought in to it. ...
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