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American Petroleum Innovators Proved the Naysayers Wrong

By Timothy H. Lee
Wednesday, March 14 2018

For decades, Americans were constantly lectured about our need to achieve energy independence. As far back as November 1973, Richard Nixon warned, "From its beginning 200 years ago, throughout its history, America has made great sacrifices of blood and also of treasure to achieve and maintain its independence. In the last third of this century, our independence will depend on maintaining and achieving self-sufficiency in energy." Over the same period, we were also falsely admonished that we had reached "peak oil." Oil reserves, we were assured, were…

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