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In debate over crude oil exports, jobs advocates clash with environmentalists
2015-12-05 23:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: The story of the Arab oil embargo of 1973, with its high gasoline prices and long car lines at service stations, is a distant memory at best, a tale told by parents and aging relatives. Almost two-thirds of all Americans alive today were toddlers then or had not been born. The legacy of that all-but-forgotten episode in the nations history has triggered a new, little-noticed partisan political battle in Washington a fight to lift the 40-year-old restriction on U.S. crude oil exports imposed as...
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