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Jimmy Carter: The driving force behind inflation is our overdependence on oil and the high prices paid for it.

On the recordOctober 28, 1979
The driving force behind inflation is our overdependence on oil and the high prices paid for it.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Providence, Rhode Island Remarks at the Northeast Summit on Energy

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