Artifact
Strategic Petroleum Reserve
U.S. emergency stock of crude oil, held in salt caverns on the Gulf Coast.
- Dates
- 1975 –
- Wikidata
- Q609251
Connections 2
followed from
- Energy Policy and Conservation Act Primary record 1
- 1973 oil embargo According to United States government Primary record 2
Timeline 1 date
- 1975 – Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Proof 2 sources
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42 U.S.C. 6231 (Strategic Petroleum Reserve: congressional findings and declaration of purpose, with amendment history), Cornell Legal Information Institute.
Primary record
to provide for the creation of a Strategic Petroleum Reserve for the storage of up to 1 billion barrels of petroleum products
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Oil Embargo, 1973–1974 (Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian.
Primary record
These measures included the creation of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a national 55-mile-per-hour speed limit on U.S. highways, and later, President Gerald R. Ford’s administration’s imposition of fuel economy standards.
Page history 1 change
- Add The Oil Weapon: the 1973 oil embargo, from OPEC's founding to the Strategic Petroleum Reserveb19881d
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