Gas stations abandoned during the fuel crisis in the winter of 1973-74 were sometimes used for other purposes. This station at Potlatch, Washington, west of Olympia was turned into a religious ...

In 1973, the world experienced a major turning point in automotive history. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) decided to tighten the flow of oil to the United States, triggering ...

Gas stations abandoned during the fuel crisis in the winter of 1973-74 were sometimes used for other purposes. This station at Potlatch, Washington, west of Olympia was turned into a religious ...

1973 Crisis. In the early 1970s, cheap fuel was everywhere. It was a fairytale time for travel, and an era that gave birth to aircraft like the fuel-hungry Concorde, an airplane that legendarily ...

Leon Mill spray paints a sign outside his Phillips 66 station in Perkasie, Pa., on June 1, 1973, to let his customers know he's out of gas. An oil crisis was the culprit, squeezing U.S. businesses ...

Pushing a car to a Boston gas station in 1973. Photo: Spencer Grant/Getty Images The attack on Israel on the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War should remind us of another anniversary: the ...

Though not the exact same dynamics, the current increase in gas prices does hold some similarities to the oil crisis of 1973.