Sentences with phrase «first oil shock»

Forty years ago, the U.S. endured its first oil shock and, as a result, reduced its use of oil by improving gas mileage in cars and researching alternatives.

But annual growth figures go back far further and show a far longer period of growth - a quarter - century's worth, lasting from the end of the second world war to the first oil shock of the seventies.

Even though it is 40 years since the first oil shocks kick - started the modern renewable energy developments (wind, solar, and cultivated biomass), we still get rather less than 1 % of our world energy from these sources.

Not exact matches

Our sense is that in light of the oil shock and weak economic growth recorded in Canada this past year, the SEPH is likely telling the more accurate story, meaning we could see employment as measured by the LFS slow significantly during the first half of 2016.»

We estimate that the oil price shock, on its own, took about 1 1/4 percentage points off GDP growth in the first half of the year.

Was shocked at first as all my previous cars were petrol and oil was always light brown.

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In other shocking news, officials in Kuwait have announced that about 90 % of corals in their territorial waters are dead or dying; the first Hourglass Dolphin found in more than 150 years has washed up on the shores of New Zealand; Poison - laced mice are being airdropped into Guam to kill a rampant, invasive species of tree snake — there's a video, after the jump — , and in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean, an old oil - drilling rig has been turned into a hotel catering to snorkelers and scuba divers — the type of project proposed by Morris Architects for the (pre-BP spill) Gulf of Mexico.

This economic fact is much different than the First and Second Arab Oil Shocks of the 1970s.

It was the oil shocks of the 1970s, and the resulting gasoline price hikes and kilometre - long lineups at service stations that gave Japanese makers of «econoboxes» their first toehold in the North American market.

Key post-World-War-II oil shocks reviewed include the Suez Crisis of 1956 - 57, the OPEC oil embargo of 1973 - 1974, the Iranian revolution of 1978 - 1979, the Iran - Iraq War initiated in 1980, the first Persian Gulf War in 1990 - 91, and the oil price spike of 2007 - 2008.