# Early 70s Gulf Oil ad: 'Bringin' Home the Oil'

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Someone has dug up [the original](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEyF80FFpTw). My recollection of this commercial is that it aired only during the space missions, and that it aired for several years (or at least several missions).