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Gas Rationing: It Worked Before and It Can Work Again

There's only one way to cut our consumption of gas and our dependence on the Arabs without raisin...

by Nicholas Burnett

The Washington Monthly, July 1978, pp. 42-48

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  Issues of 2003 = 10 Issues, 204 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 2004 = 10 Issues, 179 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 2005 = 9 Issues, 125 Articles
7. [+]
  Issues of 2006 = 9 Issues, 145 Articles
8. [+]
  Issues of 2007 = 10 Issues, 166 Articles
9. [+]
  Issues of 2008 = 4 Issues, 94 Articles
10. [+]
  Issues of 2009 = 6 Issues, 111 Articles
[+]
Issues of the 2010s = 1 Year, 5 Issues, 86 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 2010 = 5 Issues, 86 Articles