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What did independent oil producers in Texas do when the government ordered them to limit production?

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The Texas oil and gas regulator, the Texas Railroad Commission, imposed production limits on producers in the 1930s to try to prop up prices and later was a model for the creation of OPEC. Small oil producers would be exempt, Gallagher said.

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