Fuel Efficiency and the Economy

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March-April 2005

Volume 93, Number 2
Page 132

DOI: 10.1511/2005.52.132

In the fall of 1973, a new phrase entered the American lexicon: "energy crisis." On October 17 of that year, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) slapped an embargo on oil exports, hoping to punish the United States for its support of Israel in the Six Days' War.

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