Word: oils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wars may become possible for the single reason of competition for oil...
...economies to conserve energy to a much greater degree than we so far have been able to bring about. One of the most important instruments in so doing is to let people feel the fast-rising real costs of energy. Second, to a growing degree we have to replace oil by other primary resources of energy, especially coal and nu clear energy. Foreseeably, we will within the next one or two decades get into a worldwide debate about the irrevocable consequences of burning hydrocarbons - whether oil or coal or lignite or wood or natural gas - because the carbon dioxide fallout...
...Four, [which states that] every country in the world has the undisputed right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy. And third, I will point to the great danger that if nuclear energy is not developed fast enough, wars may become possible for the single reason of competition for oil and natural gas. And I think that the scarcity of oil and the rising prices for crude, which are a menace to the functioning of our economies, can lead to wars. This problem has to be understood as a grave one for the last two decades of this century...
...believe that force, if necessary, should be used to secure oil supplies for the West...
...second factor rather suddenly broke upon all of us: namely, the oil price explosion and the insight that energy would become rather scarce much more quickly than anybody had foreseen. It misled a number of governments to seek refuge-because they had to pay high energy prices-in printing even more money and creating even more inflation. This led to an upheaval in the fabric of the world economic system. I would prefer not to call it a system any longer. It is more a constellation than a system. At least it is a very unsystematic system...