The U.S. produced 71% of all world oil in 1945

The U.S. produced 71% of all world oil in 1945 when Roosevelt and Saudi King Abdulaziz Al Saud reached an oil-for-security agreement.

Nearly all the gasoline used to fight WWII came from the United States. Among the factors why Germany and Japan lost the war was because they didn’t have adequate access to gasoline

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