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By Elaine Woo / The Bulletin
March 17, 2009
Claude Brinegar, a former oil industry executive and the nation’s third secretary of the Department of Transportation, who helped enact the 55-mph speed limit during the Arab oil embargo in the mid-1970s, died of natural causes Friday at a retirement community in Palo Alto, Calif.,....