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In the United States, liberals have made it virtually impossible [to increase the supply of oil] by banning drilling in all sorts of places and preventing any new refinery from being built anywhere in the country in the last 30 years.

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Thomas Sowell
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: June 30
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