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Soon thereafter, the oil crisis of 1973 sent once-stable gasoline prices climbing. LeMenager uses “petro-melancholia” to describe this grieving for the dream of what oil promised.

Literally,” the Princeton historian Meg Jacobs, author of the book Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s, said in an email.