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Barack Obama: “If we, our children, and our grandchildren are to prosper in the 21st century, we must decrease our dependence on oil.”

On the recordJanuary 7, 2009
If we, our children, and our grandchildren are to prosper in the 21st century, we must decrease our dependence on oil.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Obama stresses the need to reduce oil dependence for future prosperity.

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