A veterinarian tale of danger and oil
On a cold December morning in 1973 in a middle-class neighborhood in Santa Rosa, I looked out my window and saw a long line of cars stretches nearly half a mile waiting to get filled in a Shell gas station. Most cars were idling with clouds of exhaust white floating in the sky.
In 13 years, I asked the father what was happening. He told me it was the result of the war in the Middle East and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to cut supplies to the United States.Price controls were imposed some years ago, which prevented the oil companies to increase the cost of imported crude oil to consumers at the pump. Oil prices rose and oil companies have simply stopped selling gas to independent gas stations.
