It really is extraordinarily easy to see the connection here: decades of higher gas prices have led to manufacturers producing more efficient engines and to consumers preferentially purchasing small engined cars.
We grasped the connection between the two Soviet natural gas pipelines into Western Europe and Moscow's looming economic crisis, then provided the insight and information to the State Department and the White House, which moved to block the pipeline project and thus deal Moscow a crippling financial blow.
Governor FRANK MURKOWSKI (Republican, Alaska): While the oil stands independent of the gas, clearly there is a connection, because what the producers basically accepted was a package.