shortages, May 3, 1979 in Long Beach, California. (Photo by Getty Images/Bob Riha, Jr.) As the 50 th anniversary of the first major oil crisis approaches next month, it is important to understand ...

They were instead rooted in events that shaped his presidency. The most important of those was the 1979 oil crisis which followed the Iranian Revolution and resulted in extreme shortages and long ...

The situation was only made worse by the 1979 oil crisis, which was kicked off by the Iranian revolution and caused an energy debacle around the world. That year, Carter gave his infamous ...

He developed an energy plan during the 1979 oil crisis that spurred oil production by deregulating oil and natural gas prices, as well as airlines. He also designated over 50 million acres of Alaska ...

Remember the 1979 oil crisis and the lines at the pumps? The double-digit inflation and rising unemployment that followed? How much of that was his fault is debatable. But it has become clear that ...

Japanese engineers were pressured to develop a lower fuel consumption system after the 1979 oil crisis, leading to the invention of the 4-valve per cylinder double overhead cam. Past four-valve ...

It has been 50 years since the Arab oil embargo and the ensuing crisis, which broke in October ... got bumpier with the Iranian Revolution of 1979. The last best hope was for coal and under ...

Under his presidency, too, Carter dealt with the 1979 oil crisis, and the Iran hostage crisis—wherein an Iranian militant group took over the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking hostage 52 American ...