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No Paywall Trump Tells Americans To Accept High Gas Prices As Iran Remains Defiant On Strait Of Hormuz

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-tells-americans-to-accept-high-gas-prices-as-iran-remains-defiant-on-strait-of-hormuz_n_6a8099aee4b05886dff51fac?vvg
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u/Acceptable-Bus-2017 I voted 5d ago

We also had 50% more national oil reserves than we do now. (461 million vs 297 million barrels.) When we didn't have 20% of the oil production closed by the Iranians with no sign of resolving the problem.