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Exceptionalists don't want to admit it, but that's only half the story.

The other parts are a large population, room to build new factories at will, and being the largest producer of oil in the world from the moment it became the most important resource in the world.

America has benefited from a century and a half long gold rush but the thing is it's running out.

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