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The shortage in 1974 was more due to Nixon taking us off the gold standard. Dollar fell in value and OPEC simply wanted the same value which was a higher price to America. Nixon also gave us price fixing to control the resulting inflation. There was no shortage of oil... just a shortage of oil available within the fixed price.
I like the idea of saving our oil for emergency military needs. However right now IMO our military is burning a lot of oil to keep the oil trade flowing. If we imported less (or none) then the military could reduce consumption.
I like the idea of saving our oil for emergency military needs. However right now IMO our military is burning a lot of oil to keep the oil trade flowing. If we imported less (or none) then the military could reduce consumption.
