Ed (gdman)

Race #6

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Official speed 61.60 wpm (83.18 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start October 27, 2011 8:41:46am UTC
Race Finish October 27, 2011 8:43:09am UTC
Outcome No win (1 of 1)
Accuracy 81.0%
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.