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  1. Jul 14, 2021 · The tightening of the U.S. sanctions against Maduro’s regime compounded Venezuela’s oil industry troubles, and Cuba became a collateral victim of reduced Venezuelan oil shipments.

  2. Heating Oil Prices - 30 Year Historical Chart. Interactive chart showing the monthly closing price for No. 2 Heating Oil: New York Harbor since 1986. The prices shown are in U.S. dollars. The current price of heating oil as of May 30, 2024 is 2.29 per gallon.

    Year
    Averageclosing Price
    Year Open
    Year High
    2024
    $2.55
    $2.47
    $2.88
    2023
    $2.68
    $2.96
    $3.41
    2022
    $3.57
    $2.25
    $5.15
    2021
    $1.91
    $1.36
    $2.45
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    • Context
    • Creation of A Protected Market
    • Oil Crises of The 1970s
    • Government Response to Oil Crises

    Price controlsRestrictions that a government sets on the price of specific goods. Price controls are usually a short-term measure to control the affordability of the goods.

    The oil industry in Canada has been subject to government regulation for nearly its entire existence. The Leduc discovery of 1947 showed — for the first time — the extent and value of Western Canadian oil and gas resources. The Canadian oil and gas industry grew rapidly from 1947 to 1973. During that time, the international price of oil was low and...

    The federal government created the National Energy Board in 1959 and the National Oil Policy in 1961 to address these supply problems. The solution was that Quebec and the Atlantic provinces would continue to import oil by ship from the cheapest foreign sources, while all of Canada west of the Ottawa Valley would get its oil and gas from Alberta, S...

    The federal government introduced price controls one month before the Oil Embargo of October 1973. In response to American support of Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries banned oil sales to the United States and its allies. This caused both a rapid price increase and a global oil shortage. The g...

    The government of Pierre Elliott Trudeau responded to the oilcrisis of 1973–74 in several ways. First, it set limits on the price that consumers could be charged for oil. Second, it began building a plant to extract synthetic oil from oil sands. This was still a relatively new and expensive process. Recognizing the potential value of this form of o...

  3. The Ten Years' War (Spanish: Guerra de los Diez Años; 1868–1878), also known as the Great War (Guerra Grande) and the War of '68, was part of Cuba's fight for independence from Spain. The uprising was led by Cuban-born planters and other wealthy natives.

    • Cuba
    • Pact of Zanjón
  4. price of household heating fuel oil increased 123%. Retail prices have more than doubled in every urban centre since 1990. Prince Edward Islanders in Charlottetown and Summerside paid the lowest average annual price in 2006, at 78 cents a litre, whereas residents of Victoria, British Columbia were paying the highest heating oil prices in 2006,

  5. 4 days ago · Monthly average retail prices for gasoline and fuel oil for Canada, selected provincial cities, Whitehorse and Yellowknife. Prices are presented for the current month and previous four months. Includes fuel type and the price in cents per litre.

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  7. Aug 4, 2016 · Furnace Oil – Current weekly consumer prices for furnace oil in 30 Canadian cities plus the average Canada price. Prices by city; Prices by year; All fuels in a combined price chart; Wholesale Prices

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