During the infamous oil embargo of 1973, when the world’s petroleum-producing countries stopped exporting to the United States during the Yom Kippur War, the effects on the U.S. were disastrous.

It's often said that the inflation of the 1970s and '80s in the U.S. and elsewhere was caused by the two oil crises of ...

Daylight saving time may be unpopular, but the last time the U.S. kept it permanently, it didn't work out as expected.