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Race #250

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Official speed 73.73 wpm (69.50 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start September 8, 2011 1:48:48pm UTC
Race Finish September 8, 2011 1:49:58pm UTC
Outcome No win (1 of 1)
Accuracy 95.0%
Points 0.00
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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.