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To: LindyBill who wrote (36294)	8/7/2002 12:50:40 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Bill, what you post is not true. It was OPEC and remember big gas guzzling cars immediately lost vogue and Detroit engineers went back to the drawing board. In those days gas lines were annoyingly inconvenient, but people were better behaved. Now, as evidenced by the tragedy in Chi, people are starkraving mad and gas lines in this country will cause riots. Here's info from that time. Have you also forgoteen the oil shortage of 1990 due to the relatively short Gulf War? Has America learned the energy lesson of 1973? LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Giant chrome and steel cars, polished high to glint proudly in the sun, once glided along America's superhighways, guzzling gasoline as if there was no tomorrow, ferrying Americans to and from their over-heated, over-air-conditioned homes. They were built without regard for the environment or economic efficiency, and their era came to a crashing halt when the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries decided to use oil as a weapon after the start of the 1973 Arab-Israeli Yom Kippur war. The Arab oil embargo of 1973 - actually a cut in supplies - plunged a nation where the car was king into despair and self-doubt. Americans found they could no longer afford to consume cheap gasoline with carefree abandon and gobble up finite natural resources.