0: Oil is falling
3: 147 Dollars a hundred and ten Dollars
7: [$60]
9: $45 once upon a time oil was sold in America for as cheap as one cent per liter
18: 50 years ago these countries produced most of the [oil]
24: Venezuela
28: Saudi Arabia, Iran Iraq and Kuwait
35: They sold their oil at whatever price they got
39: My price is $10 a barrel but other countries are selling their oil for $9
46: Here take mine for $8 one barrel equals
51: 159 liters of Petrol soon the whole World wanted more and more of their oil
59: We have to charge higher prices for a royal, but how
65: in
67: 1960 these five countries formed a group
71: Our group will now be known as the oil producing and exporting countries
75: OPEC for short and together we'll sell our oil at only one price
81: Eight more countries joined them and the price of oil suddenly shot up
93: other countries like uk and Russia also found lots of oil
100: We're not part of opec and [we'll] decide our own price
104: The world was soon flooded with more oil from more than 15 nations keeping price
110: Low at about $40 a barrel
114: buy my oil
116: No buy from me
118: But that was [about] to change
123: 15 Years back when the us China and Europe were growing they needed lots of oil
131: This made the price rise
133: When the price [of] oil increases the cost of transporting goods from the factories to shops rises
141: by Road
143: by sea by Air
146: from end
148: 2003 the price of Oil Began jumping up
162: as
165: India is the fourth largest buyer of oil in the world prices of foods and [vegetables] began to rise
175: The Usa also makes oil, but use more than they produce so they too faced rising prices
183: Rupees 70 per [litre]
187: But countries that were selling the oil. [oh] boy they were having fun
192: Building Malls
194: Fancy Buildings giving almost free petrol to its citizens
200: As it so often happens no party lasts forever
205: 2011 in the [u.s.]
208: We have discovered a new way of removing oil from under the Earth's crust. It's called fracking and
216: while it costs over [$100] to buy oil
219: we can now make it at
222: $60
223: China and Europe that only [10] years back required large amounts of oil
229: Business is not good so we don't need as much oil as before
236: With these two blows at the same time the price of oil began to drop
254: The biggest oil Buyer Usa was now going to become an oil seller
261: By 2020 we'll make more oil than we need
266: today these three [countries] make the most oil
270: 11 Million Barrels, USa 10 Million Russia
275: [9] million Saudi, Arabia
279: Now it was the turn [of] [oil-producing]
281: Countries to feel the heat their citizens were used to cheap petrol and low prices
286: So when the price was raised they were angry
291: We want cheap petrol we want cheap petrol
296: Countries like India were very happy with lower oil prices and have saved crores and crores of Rupees
303: for the first time one [litre] of [a] fuel cost less than one litre of petrol and
309: [how] I can travel without worrying about the cost
313: Prices from other sources of Energy are falling solar energy
318: wind energy
320: Making sure oil prices cannot rise very fast
325: The price of oil keeps rising and falling, but it seems that oil will remain cheaper than it was before
How oil became so important.
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