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1973 oil crisis - Two-tier price ceiling

Time: Sunday Aug 19, 1973

Place: U.S.

Details: President Nixon's Cost of Living Council imposes a two-tier price ceiling on crude petroleum sales: production of "old" oil (that produced at or below 1972 levels from existing wells) to be sold at March 1973 prices plus 35 cents; production of "new" oil (that produced above 1972 levels from existing wells and oil produced from new wells) to be sold at uncontrolled prices.

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