Petroleum politics Petroleum politics The 1973 oil crisis began in earnest on October 17, 1973, when Arab members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), during the Yom Kippur War, announced that they would no longer ship petroleum to nations that had supported Israel in its conflict with Syria and Egypt -- that is, to the United States and its allies in Western Europe. ...more on Wikipedia about "1973 oil crisis"
The Hubbert peak theory, also known as "peak oil", concerns the long-term rate of conventional oil (and other fossil fuel) extraction and depletion. It is named after American geophysicist M. King Hubbert, who created a model of known reserves, and proposed, in 1956, in a paper he presented ** at a meeting of the American Petroleum Institute, that oil production in the continental United States would peak between 1965 and 1970; and that world production would peak in 2000. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hubbert peak theory"
Syriana is a 2005 geopolitical thriller film directed by Stephen Gaghan. Like Gaghan's screenplay for Traffic, Syriana uses multiple storylines to portray a global epidemic. Syriana focuses on the influence of the oil industry, whose political, economic, legal, and social effects are experienced by a CIA operative ( George Clooney), an energy analyst ( Matt Damon), an attorney ( Jeffrey Wright), and a young unemployed Pakistani immigrant in an unnamed Persian Gulf emirate ( Mazhar Munir). ...more on Wikipedia about "Syriana"
The term UK fuel protest refers to a series of protests held in the United Kingdom over the cost of petrol. The first protests were held in September 2000, whereby tankers were prevented from reaching petrol stations. Further protests took place in September 2005, and though these did not block the tankers, panic buying caused around 3,000 stations to run dry ** . ...more on Wikipedia about "UK fuel protests"
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