Event – Panic at the Pump: the Energy Crisis of the1970s and the Transformation of American Politics

Megan Jacobs, Columbia and Princeton University

4/13, 6pm

Orozco Room – 66 W 12th St Room 712

 

In 1973, the Arab OPEC cartel banned the export of oil to the United States, sending prices and tempers rising across the country. Though the embargo would end the following year, it introduced a new kind of insecurity into American life— an insecurity that would only intensify when the Iranian Revolution led to new shortages at the end of the decade.