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Why Trump shouldn't leverage the government's emergency oil supply to bolster the GOP

  • Written by Peter Shulman, Associate Professor of History, Case Western Reserve University
President Gerald Ford discussing plans for a Strategic Petroleum Reserve with workers in California in 1975Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum

President Donald Trump has publicly griped about the prices of oil and gasoline, which are at their highest levels in four years.

If oil supplies were to suddenly grow, those prices might well...

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