Sentences with phrase «oil crisis saw»

More than a decade earlier, Ford had decided against producing a new small car to rival BMC's Mini as the production cost was deemed too high, but the 1973 oil crisis saw a rise in the already growing demand for smaller cars.

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The financial crisis slammed oil prices, but you can see from the graph that there was also a major break in the pricing relationships which had held so tightly up to then.

The current oil crisis will see regime changes in strategic places, and a currency crisis is in the offing.

Everything changed in 2014, when a combination of Western sanctions and falling oil prices created a toxic environment not seen since the 1998 financial crisis.

Canadian energy company shares are trading at levels not seen since the depths of the 2008 crisis, levels that can only be justified if the global economy falls into another recession and oil prices drop by half.

As you've seen before here in Oil & Energy Investor, national oil company PDVSA looms large in this unfolding crisOil & Energy Investor, national oil company PDVSA looms large in this unfolding crisoil company PDVSA looms large in this unfolding crisis.

Other sources of edible oil, including rapeseed and canola, have also reached levels last seen during the 2007 - 08 food crisis.

Also, seeing as oil is a concern with the recent Gulf crisis — did you know it takes 2/3 cup of oil to make a single disposable diaper?

The late 70s had seen two oil crises, The overthrow of the US backed Iranian government and the hostage crisis, the Russians taking Afganistan and the on - going cold war and perhaps the biggest concern, the stagflation crisis.

Labour's five turbulent years of office from 1974 to 1979 came during the global oil crisis and also saw domestic unrest — from militant unions, inflation, IRA and coup talk — which stimulated growing attacks on the Westminster leadership for betrayal and incompetence in the face of harsh choices.

[13] These sales losses were thought to be unrecoverable; however, the 1979 energy crisis saw Australian oil prices rise by 140 percent, putting substantial strain on the automotive industry to collectively downsize, a change that Holden had already done.

The 1973 oil crisis nearly killed Citroen, which had purchased Maserati in 1968, while the early 1990s saw the Chubasco mid-engined sports car cancelled due to financial issues and the introduction of front - engined, six - cylinder cars, a rather awkward layout for the brand.

Imagine if, in 2008 and 2009, you saw Royal Dutch Shell price's decline into the $ 30s as the price of oil got cheap and the backdrop of an economic crisis made the stock cheaper than long - term projection of oil fundamentals warrant.

Managed futures strategies are generally expected to perform well during times of crisis, such as during the 2008 credit crisis, and when there are strong directional trends in markets, such as those we have seen in the past year with oil prices and the US dollar.

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.

You can see the space race (yellow) and our passion for medical research (blue), but the green band representing nearly all energy research has the look of a python that swallowed a softball back during the oil crisis.

We have already seen the beginnings of this financial shaking in the 2008/9 economic crisis that was directly caused by the «plateauing» of crude oil production in 2005 after rising by 1 million barrels / day for twenty years in a row (from Non-OPEC peaking and OPEC cutting back production).

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.

Oil Banker Warns of Energy Crisis James Howard Kunstler is not the only one who sees parallels between the current financial crisis and a coming energy crisis.

Though the UK - based firm has succeeded in delivery small commercial quantities of Jatropha oil, the vast majority of its lofty goals have gone unmet: Its entire UK refinery operation was forced to close; its operations in Africa and India appear to be producing far lower yields than hoped for; and then there is its crisis of management, which saw its former CEO Elliot Mannis and chairman Lord Oxburgh ousted, in what Biofuels Digest has called a boardroom coup.

And we saw that for example with the BP British Petroleum oil crisis, where BP realized that after the oil spill everybody was talking about them on Twitter, everybody, and there was even a fake Twitter account parodying BP's response (@BPGlobalPR — still active with 182,033 followers).

This is certainly the case in my sector of oil and gas, where oil prices have slumped to a level not seen since the global financial crisis — visit our recently launched Oil & Gas Global Salary Guide 2016 to gain an insight into the labour market trends and hiring challenges within this industoil and gas, where oil prices have slumped to a level not seen since the global financial crisis — visit our recently launched Oil & Gas Global Salary Guide 2016 to gain an insight into the labour market trends and hiring challenges within this industoil prices have slumped to a level not seen since the global financial crisis — visit our recently launched Oil & Gas Global Salary Guide 2016 to gain an insight into the labour market trends and hiring challenges within this industOil & Gas Global Salary Guide 2016 to gain an insight into the labour market trends and hiring challenges within this industry.