a crisis of energy what would happen if
we didn't have oil or if the price of
oil goes suddenly up three or five times
well many people would not be able to
drive their cars around anymore bus
fares would go up and we would not be
able to use many things that depend on
oil imagine how difficult our lives
would be well this actually happened in
1973 and made many people change the way
they thought about energy let's find out
what happened by 1970 wealthy developed
nations such as the USA and countries in
Western Europe were using a lot of oil
they imported oil from Arab countries in
the Middle East and North Africa
however in 1973 the arab-israeli war
broke out and the United States decided
to support Israel this angered many of
the Arab countries and they decided not
to sell their oil to the United States
and its allies mostly in Western Europe
this led to major changes in the United
States oil prices increased by four
times in just three months
gas stations did not have enough gas to
sell as a result prices for virtually
everything went up in the US and Western
Europe after experiencing this many
people started thinking twice about
their dependency on oil this led to
using other energy sources such as
nuclear and renewable energy