Talk:1979 energy crisis

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I believe this is incorrect. Price controls set by the US gov't caused a shortage (due to the price) that had more of an effect than the actaul shortage in resources (scarcity). Any ideas?--Vince251 16:58, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC) or wait.. this was 1973 not 1979..--Vince251 17:05, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)

What is meant by "Yet oil lines did not reappear in the United States"? --Worldly 16:27, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I removed some vandalization. - 216.238.203.85 20:30, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

It would be good if someone could provide some context for the otherwise interesting statistic of 150,000 barrels of oil wasted per day idling in gas lines. How much gas was being consumed per game would be useful here. 216.15.125.156 00:41, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 1 change

I made 1 small change to this article based on a purely factual mistake. This should in no way be taken as an endorsement of the content of this article, nor of the quality of the original statement i made factual changes to.

This entry needs serious reworking, and, when done, will probably provoke considerable disagreements between users. There are almost 2 camps when dealing with the energy crisis, those who see it as a product of government regulation and those that see it moreso as a product of international economic circumstances.

[edit] References

I deleted the references that were there. There was nothing in either of the links that, even vaguely, related to the article. It certainly didn't back up the statistic provided. When putting back in the template, I used the older date, because the references were really never there. Zreeon 02:12, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Long lines

It would be useful to reference this. Wikipedia is useless without reliable sources, and is, in all cases, not to be used as an authoritative source (as it simply tries to convey the meaning of others sources). One might wonder why I say this. Have, then, a look at Gary Becker's (Nobel Prize) blog. Cheers! Tazmaniacs

[edit] weasel words?

While I agree this article needs cleaning up, I don't think the weasel words tag really is needed here. Fanra 01:37, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Malaise speach

About the Malaise speach, this article is weak.I read that speach and almost every Carter's promisse was a failure.To example, he promissed that USA would be importting less oil in the future, than at that times.In fact, the american oil's importation is now more the double than in 1978.Caretr also promissed million of brents of oil from coal, every day in 1990.In fact, nothing was being produced and Syntetic Oil Corporation produced no syntetic oil, just burned money from american public.201.9.78.138 (talk) 00:56, 20 April 2008 (UTC)daltonagre

sabrina + angel —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.114.250.82 (talk) 19:41, 2 June 2008 (UTC)