5. How might the need for oil affect American foreign policy?

America's oil and natural gas industry supports 10.3 million jobs in the United States and nearly 8 percent of our nation's Gross Domestic Product we spur economic growth through hundreds of billions of dollars investing right here at home every year.

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the mexican-american war was a conflict between the united states and mexico, fought from april 1846 to february 1848.