And that means Air Force planes will keep burning more fuel, and their crews will keep flying long hours.

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After 1900, Mexican immigrants came to the area in force, according to the Texas State Historical Association, and in the 1960s, as America began burning more and more oil and natural gas, Lee County was happy to produce it.

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