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JOHN YOUNG: If this -- if we were being invaded by a foreign country, we would be an occupied territory right now.

On the recordJune 29, 2010
If this -- if we were being invaded by a foreign country, we would be an occupied territory right now.

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John Young uses a metaphor to illustrate the severity of the oil crisis and the lack of adequate response.

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