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This is increasingly untrue, as we diversify our energy sources.

There's also at least three other things that are very different from the 1970s when inflation did seem to be caused by an oil shortage: 1) we have made massive gains in efficiency in the oil that we do use, and 2) we are unlikely to institute price controls, like Nixon did in the 1970s, and 3) we have a massive amount of fracking capacity that will come online if prices stay as high as they are now.