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    workers were over 5 times more productive than the global average (because of their advanced industrial sector‚ which accounts for the bulk of energy usage). The fall of the dollar U.S. economic policies had an important effect on the crisis. While the OPEC boycott was an immediate trigger‚ historians increasingly see the crisis as being rooted in American economic policies. Oil‚ especially from the Middle East‚ was paid for in United States dollars‚ at prices fixed in dollars. U.S. President Richard

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    ZC 416) Name: VEMULAPALLI GAGAN PRASAD ID No: 2016HB58040 Email ID: 2016hb58040@wilp.bits-pilani.ac.in Topic No: 9 Describe the factors currently driving the world demand for oil; why has the price fallen recently below $35 per barrel? How did the OPEC members react to this change? Will world oil prices rise in the future? Why or why not? Introduction: Before we know about factors that are currently driving the world demand for oil‚ let us first know why oil is important in our life. Gasoline is

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    Scheffler: Rebus Sic Stantibus THE POLITICIZATION AND DEATH OF REBUS SIC STANTIBUS Since 1968‚ the countries comprising the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)‚ and particularly those bordering the Persian/Arabian Gulf‚ have been moving toward a markedly different view of their mineral resources. With the recent oil embargo and the concomitant use of petroleum as a "weapon‚" the transformation is complete; the States involved now consider their natural resources to be a political

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    Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was created in 1960 with the idea of unifying and protecting the interests of petroleum-producing countries but in the end‚ only resulted into little impact until 1973. Before this organization‚ the great oil companies of the West ruled the roost. Oil is the lifeblood of the industrialized nations as it is used to fuel planes‚ cars‚ tanks‚ skyscrapers‚ fertilizer‚ drugs and synthetics. Yet back before the days of OPEC‚ the great oil companies often retained

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    into a situation where it reached a point of no return? First and foremost‚ however‚ not only was this invasion over financial debt but also over the overproduction of oil which Kuwait took in its hands against all kinds of pressures from Iraq and the OPEC. It is true that Iraq wasn’t able to pay the $80 billion (US) debt it had borrowed from Kuwait and other countries‚ but‚ this payment was unconditional and didn’t have to be returned according to an agreement between Kuwait and Iraq (Cooper‚ 2003)

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    PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS Assignment Group members Nguyen Dat Anh Ho Ngoc Son Nguyen Thai Ha Nguyen Thi Huyen Trang Luyen Trung Kien Article’s link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7048600.stm Wednesday‚ 2 January 2008‚ 22:36 GMT What is driving oil prices so high? Oil prices have hit a record high at $100 a barrel. Prices have doubled from the rates seen in January 2007 and more than quadrupled since 2002. What factors are causing this unremitting increase and what are the likely consequences

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    price volitility = the volatility of some commodities have to be taken in account and show that there are a lot of merger of those activities -Oil and gas sector : sector in which there is a lot of activity‚ merger activities whatever is happening -OPEC : organisation of oil activity -Cartel : monopoly -Cartel politics : are responsible of the volatility of oil during the 70’s – 90’s period -Financing innovations : nothing to do with specific industry = availibility of money. For merger‚ we need

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    Table of Contents Crude oil......................................................................................................................................1 Ancient Civilisation ...................................................................................................................1 Politics of Black Gold.................................................................................................................1 Physical attributes of crude ...........................

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    These thirteen countries are known as OPEC‚ which stands for the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. These nations are responsible for forty percent of the world ’s oil production and also holds the bulk of the world ’s oil reserves. OPEC can manipulate the price of the oil‚ which in turn changes the price of gasoline (Bonsor &  Grabianowski‚ 2008‚ para. 17). How is this done? It can be explained using simple supply and demand. If OPEC wants to raise the price of crude oil‚

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    OPEC countries export crude oil around the world with prices Canadian companies cannot compete with. This prevents Canadian companies from selling Canadian oil‚ hurting the profits of these companies. By OPEC dominating the oil markets they push the world into stagflation (DPD‚ 162). Through stagflation‚ policy makers must be very careful when implementing

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