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After it was implemented, the embargo caused an oil crisis, or "shock", with many short- and long-term effects on the global economy as well as on global politics. [3] The 1973 embargo later came to be referred to as the "first oil shock" vis-à-vis the "second oil shock" that was the 1979 oil crisis , brought upon by the Iranian Revolution .
The 1973 oil crisis was a direct consequence of the US production peak in late 1960 and the beginning of 1971 (and shortages, especially for heating oil, started from there). The "embargo" as described below is the "practical name" given to the crisis.
OPEC flexed its muscles on Oct. 17, 1973 by initiating the first stages of a devastating oil embargo on the United States. In response to American support for Israel in the Yom Kippur War, 10
The Israel-Hamas conflict has revived memories of the Yom Kippur War that sparked the 1973 oil crisis. Deutsche Bank’s strategists even warned this week that the odds of 1970s-style stagflation ...
The oil crisis of 1973 also had similarly large negative effects on other countries that relied heavily on imported oil, such as France, Sweden, Japan, Finland, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Denmark. In Sweden's particular case, the recession proved devastating to the shipping, ship-building, and logging and mining industries.
Famous-Barr at St. Clair Square even announced that all exterior Christmas lighting decorations and replacement bulbs would be taken off the shelves to conserve energy.
The term, a portmanteau of ... The second major shock was the 1973 oil crisis, ... More prolonged stagflation would be explained as the effect of inappropriate ...
In America, barreling through red lights on right turns has become a rule of the road. You’re likely to get honked at if you don’t speed through fast enough.