As supply fell, prices rose. America became vulnerable to future shortages. OPEC didn't begin to flex its pricing muscle until President Richard Nixon effectively took the U.S. dollar off the gold standard in 1971. The value of the dollar plummeted, taking oil revenues down with it. ...
This paper applies panel data analysis to examine the short-run dynamics and long-run equilibrium relationships among nuclear energy consumption, oil prices, oil consumption, and economic growth for developed countries covering the period 1971–2006. The panel cointegration results show that in the lon...
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oil production peaked in 1971 and thus lost its excess production capacity, OPEC was able to manipulate oil prices. Since then, oil production in several other countries has also peaked. However, for a variety of reasons, it is difficult to predict the oil peak in any given region. Based ...
The Impact of Falling Oil Prices on the Canadian Economy The steady-state impact of reductions in the price of oil is examined using a CGE model of the Canadian economy. In our base case of a 10 percent reduction in the oil price, national output declines by 1.0 percent and consumer ...
Geopolitical conflicts and their impact on oil prices The price of oil is controlled in part by limiting oil production. Prior to 1971, the Texas Railroad Commission controlled the price of oil by setting limits on production of U.S. oil. In 1971, the Texas Railroad Commission ceased limiting...
Our projections for total world demand in 2030 are at least 20% higher than projections by those three institutions, using similar assumptions about income growth and oil prices, because we project rest-of-world growth that is consistent with historical patterns, in contrast to the dramatic ...
The economy started 2006 extremely strong in spite of record oil prices and rising interest rates. An unusually mild winter across much of the country is part of the story, but the lack of worry by consumers and business about oil prices is an even bigger part. The question remains, will ...
while the United States would back the Egyptian central government with the intent of stabilizing Italy's economy and ENI if Italy and its subjects are in the OFN alliance. Hoping radicalism would create terror and thus cheaper oil prices, the Japanese government would back the Muslim Brotherhood...
Oil. It's a nonrenewable resource, but only in the last decade or so has the "non" part really begun to hit home. As oil prices continue their seemingly endless trek skyward, the whispers about peak oil have turned into a roar. Peak oil is the hypothetical date when the combined daily...