Personal sacrifices could mitigate gas crisis

NEXT time you’re standing there with a gas pump in your hand, watching the meter rack up a price that resembles your Zip Code, chew on these words:

“Of course is going to rise. Certainly! And how … you increased the price of wheat you sell us by 300 percent, and the same for sugar and cement … It’s only fair that, from now on, you should pay more for oil …”

Those words came not from Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejadnor, nor Hugo Chavez of Venezuela nor Osama bin Laden. It came from our longtime ally, the Shah of Iran, in 1973.

That’s right, folks, 33 years ago.

Pasadena Star-News