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1973 oil crisis

U.S. Government ends Mandatory Oil Import Program

Apr, 1973
U.S.

U.S. Government ends Mandatory Oil Import Program. The program, established in 1959 by President Eisenhower, had limited imports of crude and product east of the Rocky Mountains to a percentage of domestic crude production.


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