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> [Americans once believed that their prosperity and way of life depended on having assured access to Persian Gulf oil. Today, that is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-bacevich/americans-once-believed-that-their-prosperity-and-way-of-life/)

[Andrew Bacevich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-bacevich/)

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> [We are on the brink of a new energy order. Over the next few decades, our reserves of oil will start to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fatih-birol/we-are-on-the-brink-of-a-new-energy-order-over-the-next-few-decades/)

[Fatih Birol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fatih-birol/)

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> [Yet, most of the readily accessible reserves of oil formed over hundreds of millions of years will be consumed within a single…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lester-r-brown/yet-most-of-the-readily-accessible-reserves-of-oil-formed-over/)

[Lester R. Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lester-r-brown/)

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> [With only 2 percent of the world's oil reserves, oil isn't enough. This country needs an all-out, all-of-the-above strategy that develops every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barack-obama/with-only-2-percent-of-the-world-s-oil-reserves-oil-isn-t-enough-this/)

[Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barack-obama/)

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> [With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/with-only-2-percent-of-the-world-s-proven-reserves-of-oil-we-in-the/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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                        "text": "Americans once believed that their prosperity and way of life depended on having assured access to Persian Gulf oil. Today, that is no longer the case. The United States is once more an oil exporter. Available and accessible reserves of oil and natural gas in North America are far greater than was once believed. Yet the assumption that the Persian Gulf still qualifies as crucial to American national security persists in Washington. Why?",
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