Sentences with phrase «1970s oil crisis»

Investor after investor, and nation after nation, have discovered this one more time (something similar happened after the 1970s oil crisis).

During the 1970s oil crisis, Chamberlain often incorporated oil barrels into his work, notably in the series Socket and Kiss (1979).

Launched at the end of the late 1970s oil crisis, Ford's «Fox Body» Mustang (underpinned by Ford's Fox rear - drive platform) was meant to signal a return to the car's muscle - bound 1960s roots.

The Yom Kippur War between Israel and Egypt / Syria in the fall of 1973 hastened the 1970s oil crisis when OPEC declared an embargo that raised the posted price of oil from $ 3.00 a barrel to approximately $ 12 by spring of 1974.

If successful, it will rank right up there with Japan's pioneering of the global LNG age during the 1970s oil crises.

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EMISSIONS - Because diesel fuel is heavier and oilier than gasoline it can be more polluting, earning a reputation for sootiness when it came into wider U.S. automotive use during the 1970's oil crisis.

Rewind to the energy crisis in the 1970s and a decision by OPEC to keep pumping oil would have been cheered by investors not to mention motorists and the rest of the economy.

During the 1973 oil crisis, the 1973 — 74 stock market crash, and the secondary banking crisis of 1973 — 75, the British economy fell into the 1973 — 75 recession and the government of Edward Heath was ousted by the Labour Party under Harold Wilson, which had previously governed from 1964 to 1970.

The 1970s proved a difficult time to be in government for both the Conservatives and Labour due to the 1973 oil crisis which caused high inflation and a global recession.

Falling copper prices, the oil crisis, and failed economic management in the 1970s led to shortfalls and severe economic crisis in Zambia by the early 80s, instigating a nationwide famine and forcing the government to borrow massive amounts of money and commit to extreme IMF economic reforms which led to anti-government riots and the devaluation of the kwacha.

PECULIAR fashion choices, an oil crisis and embarrassing hairstyles notwithstanding, the 1970s were the good old days.

But the oil crisis of the 1970s pushed researchers to search for alternatives made not of petroleum, but from plants.

Consequently, much of our technology dates back to the 1970s, when the oil crisis spurred an interest in geothermal energy.

But the next sentence that «OPEC would have no option but to defend itself with all the resources at its command» would have sent alarm bells ringing in many capitals, where the oil crises of the 1970s still evoke grim memories.

Set in an alternate 1970's during an oil crisis, the game pitted the criminal Coyotes against the Vigilantes, a team of civilians who take the law into their own hands.

Conceived amid the oil crisis of the 1970s, Toyota's brave vision for a fuel - sipping sports car was a stroke of genius

We all know what happened to the muscle car in the 1970s: it withered to a shell of its former self in the face of oil crises and engine / size downsizing.

The shift to smaller cars amid the oil crises doubled Japanese automobile market share from 10 to 20 percent in the United States between 1970 and 1980; thus, causing economic tensions between the two nations.

The Oil crisis of the 1970s and the success of small FF cars like the Mini, Volkswagen Golf, Toyota Tercel, and Honda Civic led to the widespread adoption of that layout.

These challenges came from every angle from new emissions standards in 1970 to an oil crisis three years later, in addition to innumerable engineering issues.

The Energy Department's budget jumped in the 1970s as a result of the surge in oil production during the energy crisis and in the 1980s, during the «farm crisis,» the Agriculture Department saw a similar budget hike.

There are successful plants harvesting heat from deep hot rock in Australia, Europe and Japan, the report noted, adding that studies of the technology largely stopped in the United States after a brief burst of research during the oil crises of the 1970s.

Given the money that was spent by auto and oil companies in the 1970s on advertising about options, and the eventual awakening of the government and other authoritative bodies who began to look carefully at energy, I think we learned how to talk about energy and energy related science by the time the 2nd oil crisis hit, in 1979.

You pointed out that the amount of federal research funding for energy hasn't changed much since the oil crisis of the 1970s.

That paper was a central source for my 2006 article describing the country's longstanding, and bipartisan, abandonment of energy research and development after the last pulse of the oil crisis of the 1970s.

The energy crises of the 1970s, however, gave way to an oil glut in the 1980s, and Block Island's dependence on diesel continued.

Energy security (refers to the long term; it is especially relevant for extended periods of economic and trade disputes or military disruptions that could threaten energy supply, e.g. 1970's oil crises [1], world wars, Russia cuts» off gas supplies to Europe).

The WEO is considered to be the annual reference point for the global energy industry, and has been since the IEA was first created in the 1970s in response to the global oil crisis.

This would be worse than the «oil crisis» of the 1970s because the reduction would be greater, would be permanent, and energy use has increased since then.

CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion in France and Belgium both declined at 3.7 % on average between 1978 - 1988 following the oil crisis of the 1970s: http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v3/n1/full/nclimate1783.html#supplementary-information

It was included as a potentially important factor in the large energy system study «Energy in the Finite World» that got it's motivation from the oil crises of 1970s.

Founded back in the 1970s in response to the oil crisis, its website says it currently «works to ensure reliable, affordable and clean energy for its 28 member countries.»

After the 1970s - era oil crises, Japan established the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) as a semi-governmental organization to research new energy technologies.

Since you haven't lived in my own head for my entire life, Mike F., I can hardly blame you for not knowing that my desire to see fossil fuels phased out in favor of alternatives began during the oil crises in the 1970s.

Although the 1970s «back - to - the - land» movement (which coincided with historic energy crises) largely fizzled, perhaps due to cheap oil flowing from the North Sea and Alaska during the 1980s and 1990s, we may be on the cusp of similar, more widespread, and possibly more desperate trends today.

What inspired the «green activism» of the 1970s was not as much pretty pictures of «Gaia» as much as it was the oil shock, and the other economic and Cold War crises that developed as the postwar economic boom turned to bust.

These lines rather sum up the confused media response in the 1970's (the sun zooming in would * not * be causing an ice age; sea level rise would be associated with warming); engines stop running mixes up the oil crisis.

Supporters call the existing standards — known as the corporate average fuel efficiency (CAFE) standards and created in the 1970s during the energy crisis — one of the great environmental success stories, saving the country billions of barrels of oil that would otherwise have been burned in the 30 years since enactment of the law.

««The Greatest Generation» was shaped by the Great Depression and Baby Boomers were impacted by the oil crises throughout the 1970s.