The oil shock of October 1973 is the story of America’s surrendering its energy independence, with dangerous consequences. It has disturbing parallels today. In 1960 America imported only 10% of ...

Last Updated on June 30, 2025 by Matt Staff The 1970s oil crisis hit everyone with the gravity of an empty-tank warning light ...

I n the mid to late 1960s, Ford was one of the most serious players in the U.S. auto market, cornering nearly 30 percent in 1966. Quite a bit of Ford's success at the time can be attributed to ...

I t's easy to look back at the Oil Crisis pessimistically. On the one hand, it's easy to argue that American car culture really peaked in the muscle era. We still put late-sixties Dodges, Fords ...

The Israel-Hamas conflict has revived memories of the Yom Kippur War that sparked the 1973 oil crisis. Deutsche Bank’s strategists even warned this week that the odds of 1970s-style stagflation ...

Although the current Mideast crisis appears similar to the 1973 events that caused the first Oil Crisis, many things have changed so that a repeat is unlikely. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip.

WASHINGTON — Fifty years after the 1973 Arab oil embargo, the current crisis in the Middle East has the potential to disrupt global oil supplies and push prices higher.

The oil crisis and the resulting market economy contributed to the relief of the poor that could not be realized by Nasser's socialism." The literacy rates in the Arab world stagnated again in the ...

Fifty years after the 1973 Arab oil embargo, the current crisis in the Middle East has the potential to disrupt global oil supplies and push prices higher. But don't expect a repeat of the ...

The Ford Granada is perhaps the best model out of Detroit to epitomize the fall from grace that American cars had after the 1973 oil crisis. Curbside Classics even went as far as crowning the 1975 ...

A repeat of the 1973 oil crisis clearly isn’t currently under way, but that outcome still isn’t out of the realm of possibilities if the Israel-Hamas conflict escalates.