Much depends on whether more drivers rush to buy petrol, as they did in the oil shocks of the 1970s.

汽油价格在很大程度上取决于是否有更多的司机像上世纪70年代石油危机时那样急于购买汽油。

In Britain they peaked in the 1970s, before oil shocks and strikes decimated the country's industry.

在英国，它们在 1970 年代达到顶峰，当时石油冲击和罢工摧毁了该国的工业。

This near-tripling of oil prices calls up scary memories of the 1973 oil shock, when prices quadrupled, and 1979-1980, when they also almost tripled.

3. 石油价格几乎翻了三倍，让人想起1973年的石油危机，当时石油价格翻了两番，而1979年至1980年，石油价格也几乎翻了三倍。