A New Understanding of the American Energy Crisis of the 1970s

2014/01/01 by Robert Lifset, Lifset, Robert D.
Energy · Social Sciences · #1970s #Energy #Global Energy Security and Policy #Global Energy and Sustainability Research #Political and Economic history of UK and US #electricity #energy crisis #energy history #energy policy #natural gas #oil

paper · pdf · doi:10.12759/hsr.39.2014.4.22-42

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Abstract

The energy crisis of the 1970s in the United States consisted of three separate but related problems in the oil, natural gas, and utility sectors of the energy economy. The OPEC price increases and the OAPEC embargo of 1973 merely exacerbated existing problems. This article traces these problems over several decades and their development into a crisis in the early 1970s.

Citations

• Between National and Human Security: Energy Security in the United States and Western Europe in the 1970s

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