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    James Buchan a Financial Times correspondent stated, “A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.” The uses petroleum have are relevant from transportation to everyday synthetic materials. It is the sole reasoning

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    Middle East contains some of the world’s largest oil reserves, and this oil gives them a lot of economic clout because the use of oil for energy purposes is essential for nearly every nation’s survival. Most of the world has some degree of dependence on Arab oil, and the Arab states can use this power as political leverage. In an effort to utilize this oil power against Israel and its supporters, the Arab nations enacted oil production cutbacks and an oil embargo in 1973. To have an effective embargo

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    Gas price increases by 300 dong, to 24.510 dong per liter, diesel increases by 240 dong per liter, to 22.700 dong per liter. One liter of petroleum costs 22.630 dong now, increasing by 230 dong, fuel oil also increases by 200 dong/liter. The latest price adjustment is 2 pm 18/12/2013, when gas price increased by 584 dong/liter for RON 92, up to 24.214 dong/liter. Diesel was allowed to increase by 653 dong, up to 22.963 dong/liter. Petroleum also increased

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    come for these plans to begin working. The fuel prices have increased dramatically and the economy is now starting to feel the effect. Around the world, the increase of the price of crude oil has hit the public harmfully. May Canadian’s heat their homes with oil, especially on the west coast, and the cost of oil has increased 50% or more with a three-month range. In America, president Clinton has begun spending countless millions of

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    President Nixon heightened the war, but, it didn 't change the movement of force. It was simply expanding the measure of passings, and not finishing anything. There were many funny stories going around about costly plane work that were disgracing, where we 'd send billions dollar flying machine into North Vietnam,That didn 't go over exceptionally well. Our warriors were progressively being murdered by falling into pits, executed, injuring. The whole ordeal didn 't create the impression that our

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    and how they drive their vehicles. There is even a political downside to the price of gas. It will mainly only affect the Democrats and not so much the Republicans. Unless the people do something about this the Republicans will keep backing the oil companies in order to keep their wallets fat. These high gas prices are destroying the economy. “Other than raiding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the Democrats have no plan of action to immediately assuage voter’s pain at the pump, whereas the Republicans

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    produced to fulfil those wants we have a problem of scarcity. An example of this would be the OPEC oil price shocks between 1973 and 1980. Yes, it is true that the price of oil rose and some individuals used substitutes but the economies of oil importing countries like Germany and Japan fell because OPEC now had more buying power since they had the control over a scarce resource. We can therefore think of oil as having become scarcer in economic terms when its price rose. Earlier I stated that

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    The 1970s energy crisis was a problem in the 1970s, because it caused panic in America. So many people, at that time were depended on oil, to keep their cars running. What caused the panic, started when an oil embargo was imposed. This oil embargo was imposed by the members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC). Shortly after the embargo was a announced, only three months later oil prices shot up from $3 per barrel to $12. Also due to this oil embargo, American also faced

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    The Energy Crisis Of 1979

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    such as oil, wind, thermal, natural, solar, hydraulic, etc. During the 70s, energy was a booming industry that everybody wanted to be a part of. This industry affected people 's way of living and everyday use of technology such as house appliances, automobiles, industry, and city power grids. During this era, an energy crisis occurred which had a big impact on many people nationally and internationally. This energy crisis was the result of the production peak in the 1970s, the oil crisis of 1973

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    Venezuela What would happen to Venezuela if the oil disappears? Venezuela is going through a very critical situation in which the economy is being affected. One of the reason why the situation in the economy in Venezuela is so urgent right now is because they are depending 96% on oil. That is one of the reason why in Venezuela, the people can’t buy basic product. To solve this problem, Venezuelans should find a way to expresses their voice in the “Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries”

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