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发帖数: 6973 | 1 (1) Daniel Yergin, There Will Be Oil. For decades, advocates of 'Peak Oil'
have been predicting a crisis in energy supplies. They've been wrong at
every turn. Wall Street Journal, Sept 17, 2011
(a vignette headlined "A History of Black Gold: Boom and Panic" included: "
1918 World War I was the first mechanized war, complete with tanks and
airplanes. As oil went to Europe to ensure the mobility of Allied forces,
1918 saw the highest gasoline prices (adjusted for inflation) ever recorded
in the US. 'Gasolineless Sundays' were instituted to encourage people to
drive less.")
(2) William Anthony Hay, The Bitter End; A divisive victorry might have been
possible given months more fighting, but the human cost would have been
terrible. Wall Street Journal, Sept 17, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240531
11904265504576566582336898212.html
(book review on David Stevenson, With Our Backs to the Wall; Victory and
Defeat in 1918. Harvard/Belknap, 2011)
Summary: Both sides in WWI were utterly exhausted.
Note: Second Battle of the Marne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_the_Marne
(July 15-Aug 6, 1918)
* Marne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marne |
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