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Last Words
 July/August 2008


A sign in Pitt County, North Carolina.

"Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States."

—Then-representative Dick Cheney in 1986, after introducing a bill to impose a tax on imported oil

Photo by Don Hazelwood; used with permission.

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