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Throughline Part 3: The Fifth Century
In the 1970s, Americans were demanding that the US become less reliant on Middle Eastern oil. Many energy planners fear that this reliance could have grave foreign policy and economic problems for us in the years ahead. Dwayne Andreas gets a gift from the agricultural gods; he uses his political chops to turn corn into sugar. Coming up, Thomas House is calling for my taxonomy lab in Esther, Alaska.