The events and bodies that came out of the dependence on oil in the 1960s and 1970s, including the founding of OPEC, the 1973 oil embargo and the creation of the International Energy Agency in response. A milestone belongs here when its cited article describes the oil producers, the embargo or the consumer body created after it. It excludes accidents and blackouts, which have their own group. These events tied the price and supply of oil to the politics of producing and consuming countries.
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Wikipedia: 1973 Oil Crisis
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In October 1973, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) announced that it was implementing a total oil embargo against countries that had supported Israel at any point during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, which began after Egypt and Syria launched a large-scale surprise attack in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to recover the territories that they had lost to Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War.
Wikipedia: International Energy Agency
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The International Energy Agency (IEA) is a Paris-based autonomous intergovernmental organization, established in 1974, that provides policy recommendations, analysis and data on the global energy sector.
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