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'We've become dumb!' GOP at war with itself as Big Oil slams Trump's diesel plan

A decades-long alliance between congressional Republicans and the fossil fuel industry is fracturing over a proposed diesel export ban, with farm-state GOP lawmakers and MAGA populists now openly attacking "Big Oil" as skyrocketing fuel prices threaten Republicans' standing heading into November.The...

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