The Energy Crisis In The 1970's

Energy Crisis in the 70’s Throughout the 1970’s, the United States of America had some trouble maintaining the amount of resources they previously had. The shortages of these resources stirred up arguments in America. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter spoke about all of these issues in the country. Conflicts in the United States of America included claims that the president didn’t actually care, parts of the energy crisis, and how the government was said to be ineffective during all of this. But, in this time from the 1970s until now, 2015, it is unsure whether the energy crisis and the government really have changed. During the late portion of the 70s, it wasn’t all love, peace, and groovy music. At the time when the 39th President, Jimmy …show more content…
Going into depth with the energy crisis, the biggest issue was the want and need for oil with not enough oil to go around to everyone causing issues with members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Companies (OPEC). After the Iranian Revolution the oil industry was just not the same causing the prices of oil per barrel to skyrocket (Britannica Staff). This became a problem within the energy crisis since the majority of people living in the United States of America depended on oil for different uses like transportation, fertilizer, and other things commonly used here in the United States. Also, it didn’t get better with the Iran-Iraq War following shortly after because the prices of oil didn’t stop increasing the prices just kept going up (Britannica Staff). Another problem that is considered in the topic of the energy crisis is the petroleum reserves which can also be tied in to an oil crisis. The rise in prices of petroleum is an effect of the Iranian oil production plummeting so they were not producing enough petroleum to sell at lower prices (Verleger 464). These topics have to do with what President Jimmy Carter said about not wanting everyone in the United States of America depending on foreign countries for these resources during his …show more content…
If there weren’t so many ideas going into the topic of whether the United States of America was still in an energy crisis or not then it would be simple to give an answer to that. That does not mean that people are allowed to just waste resources that they can’t get back from the world. Comparing the energy crisis from the 1970s to now shows that America was able to get out of the energy crisis, also showing that it does not make the economy a whole lot better. While the economy has taken a spill with little job availability and people not being able to pay for things that they have to pay for like housing and taxes, it also has been improving. The improvements in the economy have to do with the prices that are lowering after they were raised so high during the energy crisis including the gas prices starting to decrease now which contributes to putting the United States of America out of this energy crisis. Adding up all of the factors into if anything has really changed since the energy crisis in the 70s can be overwhelming because there have been some cons happening in America and there have also been pros, the pros having to do with the energy