Energy refugee fleeing $100-a-barrel oil

Around the time of the first oil shock in 1973, columnist Art Buchwald penned a satirical column about what life without cheap oil would be like in the 1990s. One day, a father and son go out for their first drive in weeks because fuel costs $8.50 a gallon. "I feel like a steak," says the father to his son. And the boy asks, "Dad, what's a steak?"

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