January 17th this year here in the Midwest I

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4. Much of the media have been going back to what happened at the start of Russia's war against Ukraine

to do a "comparative analysis" of "oil shocks", and this is NOTHING like that. This IS more like the oil embargo of the '70s.

I remember it well because I lived on a main residential street that at the time, had 3 gas stations on the corner of a major intersection (a Sunoco, an Amoco, and and old-fashioned, sidewalk-type Gulf station, with the pumps right next to the sidewalk), with the "odd/even" (license plate) days, and long lines of cars stretched at least 2 blocks past our house (and we were a couple blocks from those stations). And our 8 cylinder station wagon, was lucky to get 8 mpg!