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Believe it or not, history does not repeat itself. I know that runs contrary to what you have heard since about the 1st grade, but it is not true. I guess if you could somehow eat an Oreo and bounce back through time you could repeat history, however it would violate the very laws of physics.

However, the things that do repeat themselves in history are the mistakes that humans make.

History does have a definite reason. We can look back at what others have done before us and say, “Wow that sucked! Let’s not do the Dark Ages thing again!” or ” Yep, we can do the same thing that the Greek Empire did, let’s just modify it and do it better this time!”

For some reason though, we never seem to learn from our past mistakes. In the early 1970′s gas was plentiful for the American consumer. I can remember my father coming home and telling us about the “Gas Wars” at the local pumps. The term “Gas Wars” meant that gas was so cheap that the gas stations would do just about anything to get you to come to them.

Then, October 17th, 1973 hit the American economy with a vengeance. The Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries got together and deliberately waged economic war on the U.S. by raising oil prices. The price of Gas went from somewhere around .21 cents a gallon to .50 cents from may to June of 1973. Not only did the Arab countries raise our prices, but for almost a week they disrupted the flow of fuel to America and disrupted our economic system. Gas lines ran for miles as Americans sat in lines for hours to get limited fuel.

The question begs however, did we learn anything from this situation and what have we done to give up our addiction to oil? You see the reason that the dinosaurs went extinct was because they could not adapt to a sudden change in climate. They didn’t have the brain power to know how to save themselves. One can only guess this is going to be the tragedy of the more progressive countries. We have the brain power to invent the Internet, go to the moon and create incredible reality TV shows like “Growing up Gotti” but in almost half of a century, we haven’t figured out how to get away from fossil fuels.

Well, I guess if the dinosaurs hadn’t croaked, there wouldn’t be half as much oil and civilization would have had to get by cleaning up horse poop every morning before going to work.

Darn, those stupid dinosaurs!

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