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To: D. Long who wrote (36609)	8/9/2002 10:13:15 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

That’s an article with information not relevant to the two gas crises of the 70’s in CA to which I referred. I don’t have to look anything although I did to back myself up because I lived in Northern CA, San Mateo during both gas “crises”. They were attributed to OPEC shortages. Each resulted in massive changes afterwards. Folks went from driving 8 mpg gas guzzlers to the newly imported 21 mpg as Detroit scrambled to answer the demands of the public. After the second ’78 “shortage” the independent gas stations not driven out of business the first time by big oil companies were gone. Less impactive because no lines, but responsible for price increases was, as well, the OPEC shortage after the Gulf War in 1990. An interesting side note, friends who’d been living in Texas running a business called in 78 to tell me the story of a disappeared local news anchor. He’d done an expose on Texans burning their oil fields at that time showing films. Though they’d been seen him nightly, he was never on again after that. The whole gas crisis seemed to have been artificially manipulated.