The supply of oil for users in the United States

a. was never an issue of serious public concern until the 1970s.
b. has never been an issue of serious concern by political leaders.
c. has often been a topic for dire warnings and forecasts of oil depletion.
d. has been more and more in doubt since the early 1980s.


C

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