[Dane]

You missed my point. The so-called "oil crisis" began long before 1973. Check out the price of oil and the value of the U.S. dollar from 1969-1973

And you missed the point that your "the military is using all the oil" theory is all wet.

[Alberta's Child]

. . . your "the military is using all the oil" theory is all wet.

Yeah, but that wasn't the basis of my theory. What I suggested was that a major factor in the dramatic increase in oil prices was excessive demand for military operations. I'm speculating that the fuel used to run hundreds or even thousands of sorties every day is enormous -- and influences the price of oil simply because it is demand that the market hasn't necessarily been prepared to meet.