>One event that was meant to solve the gasoline shortage was a dictate given by Richard Nixon. He decreed by Executive Order that for each gallon of crude oil being refined in the United States, a specific amount would be in the form of gasoline.
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>The amount specified was greater then was being refined per gallon of oil. In fact the Energy Czar was on national television and stated that regardless of what the President wanted, the chemistry would not allow the additional amount demanded.
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>Whatever happened to that Energy Czar? :)

Maybe they replaced him with someone who knew something about elementary organic chemistry.