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Meg Jacobs
Meg Jacobs is a research scholar in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. She is the author of
Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970
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America’s Never-Ending Oil Consumption
Why presidents have found it so difficult to ask people to just use less
Meg Jacobs
May 15, 2016
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