Out of Gas
Good grief, the price of gas is crazy, isn’t it?
A brief look at the cost of filling the tank these days is enough to make the driver keep driving - that is, of course, if they didn’t keel over from sticker shock first.
The obsessive checking of gas prices and the quest for finding the lowest possible rate is a daily occurrence. Yet this isn’t something new. This has happened in our history before. As a matter of fact, for those who remember a time when the ability to “fill ‘er up” was contingent on the current status of global events, the current squeeze at the pumps is strangely familiar.
The oil crisis of 1973 left drivers to fend for themselves. Empty gas tanks as a result of the oil embargo left many scrambling for the nearest, longest gas station lineup. But there was no relief that was guaranteed even if the mega-expensive fuel was found. Not only was the petroleum well desert-level dry, but it was barren, as well.
This crisis that happened in the …
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