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The 1973 Arab Oil Embargo: The Old Rules No Longer Apply
Greg Myre
The embargo led to long gas lines and shaped U.S. foreign policy to this day. However, the world energy market has changed dramatically over the past four decades, and the U.S. now gets less than 10 percent of its oil from the Middle East.