D is the closest answer. The problem was that the naval oil reserves were located in Teapot Dome Wyoming and these reserves were secretly transferred to the Mammoth Oil company. There was no bid. There was no fairness in the transaction. It was motivated mostly by greed, it seems. Harding's administration was riddled with problems. This was just one of them.
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A theory of imperialism says that imperialistic U.S. policies are driven not simply by the interests of American businesses, but by the interests of the economic elites of a global alliance of developed countries.
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Earthquakes in New Zealand occur because we are located on the boundary of two of the world's major tectonic plates – the Pacific Plate and the Australian Plate. These plates are colliding with huge force, causing one to slowly grind over, under or alongside the other.
