Trans-Alaska Pipeline Signed Into Law: Oil Will Flow
President Richard Nixon signed the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, clearing the legal path for a 800-mile steel artery to carve through frozen wilderness. This move immediately unleashed a massive industrial mobilization that delivered millions of barrels of oil to U.S. markets and fundamentally shifted American energy independence in the 1970s.
November 16, 1973
53 years ago
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