Plentiful oil? A V-8, anyone?

Lindsay Chappell is the Mid-South bureau chief for Automotive News.

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Lindsay Chappell

November 15, 2012 05:00 AM

Four years after the auto industry started trembling at the real prospect of a global fuel shortage, painful pump prices and consumers clamoring for vehicles that can deliver 50 mpg, this news arrives from the International Energy Agency in France: There’s way more oil under America than we realized.

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