During the 1970’s, America and many other Western nations endured a severe oil shortage, due to an embargo set by the Middle Eastern nations. These Middle Eastern nations controlled the oil company known as OPEC, which helped supply many Western nations their oil. OPEC, or The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, was formed by the coming together of all the Arab countries who were infuriated at the fact that Palestinian lands were taken and used to create Israel (OPEC States Declare Oil Embargo). Other events took place before the Arab countries united and created the embargo. Those prior events made it easier for the want of an embargo, and allowed the Middle Eastern countries a chance for revenge against the Western nations. To understand the prior events that led to the creation of the oil embargo you need to look just a little further back into history. This will then explain how it all started, and how it deeply affected America and the American people.
According to Sarah Horton’s paper on the 1973 Oil Crisis, a war, known as the “Suez-Sinai War,” broke out between newly founded Israel and an Arabian nation that …show more content…
Over the one year that Americans experienced the Oil Crisis, they began worrying more about how many miles per gallon of gasoline that their cars were getting. This severely hurt the car companies that produced “gas guzzling” cars in America and allowed for Japanese cars to become more popular because of their greater fuel efficiency. American car manufactures as a result had to change the styles of their cars to be more fuel efficient. The auto industry in America today still hasn’t fully recovered from this devastating blow (Horton). When I interviewed Don he told me that during this time, he drove a 1973 Chevy Van which got around 18 to 20 miles per gallon. Like many Americas during this crisis, Don upgraded his car to be more fuel
According to Sarah Horton’s paper on the 1973 Oil Crisis, a war, known as the “Suez-Sinai War,” broke out between newly founded Israel and an Arabian nation that …show more content…
Over the one year that Americans experienced the Oil Crisis, they began worrying more about how many miles per gallon of gasoline that their cars were getting. This severely hurt the car companies that produced “gas guzzling” cars in America and allowed for Japanese cars to become more popular because of their greater fuel efficiency. American car manufactures as a result had to change the styles of their cars to be more fuel efficient. The auto industry in America today still hasn’t fully recovered from this devastating blow (Horton). When I interviewed Don he told me that during this time, he drove a 1973 Chevy Van which got around 18 to 20 miles per gallon. Like many Americas during this crisis, Don upgraded his car to be more fuel