Mehrshad (mehr74)

Race #570

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Official speed 41.44 wpm (123.65 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start October 25, 2014 10:33:54pm UTC
Race Finish October 25, 2014 10:35:58pm UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 3)
Accuracy 90.0%
Points 0.00
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Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been the world's number one producer of petroleum, American companies determined the global price of oil. In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its inexorable, irreversible decline. The year before, the prerogative of setting the price of crude oil had passed into the hands of a new producer group, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.