View Pit Stop page for race #1190 by ngran — Ghost race
Official speed | 50.61 wpm (101.24 seconds elapsed during race) |
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Race Start | November 24, 2009 3:54:50am UTC |
Race Finish | November 24, 2009 3:56:31am UTC |
Outcome | Win (1 of 2) |
Points | 0.00 |
Text | #232 (Length: 427 characters) Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been the world's number one producer of petroleum, American companies determined the global price of oil. In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its inexorable, irreversible decline. The year before, the prerogative of setting the price of crude oil had passed into the hands of a new producer group, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. |