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Race #3054

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Official speed 50.61 wpm (101.24 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start August 16, 2009 11:08:24pm UTC
Race Finish August 16, 2009 11:10:05pm UTC
Outcome No win (3 of 3)
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.