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Crisis, especially when dramatic, media magnified, and ominous, is a potent driver of policy change, often the most powerful force. Over time, crises can release—at least temporarily—energy policy mired for years or decades in Washington political deadlock, creating the punctuated equilibrium characteristic of contemporary energy policymaking since the initial Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) oil embargo of 1972. The political force of crisis is not lost on policy practitioners and stakeholders, who often labor in policy venues to anoint a favored issue a “crisis” and thereby invest it with an urgency it might otherwise lack.