Talk:Oil crisis

Removed references to oil being used to generate electricity. Oil fired plants are a very minor source of electric power, with most plants being coal or gas fired.

Well, if you use oil-powered trains to get your coal to the power station... (and oil-powered cars to get the workers to the coalpit etc etc) :) cferrero

I think the commercial "knock-on" effects can more accurately be attributed to what are described as consumer effects, e.g. high petrol prices, which is significant for manufacturing, i.e. in shipping, etc. Graft 00:12 5 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I removed the link to the California_electricity_crisis, because as the discussion above demonstrates oil has very little to do with electric power. SimonP 04:04 5 Jul 2003 (UTC)

The link was there to highlight the energy crisis similarity (especially the supplier withdrawal and consumer price regulation, which both have in common), even if oil is not used to generate electricity, they do compete on things like home heating, and a rise in the price of one is often correlated with a rise in the other dml

So we actually don't have an article about the oil crisis on it's own? You get redirected to energy crisis but that's not the same. Shouldn't there be an oil crisis on it's own? I got some nice information here: [1] Lantern

I'm new to editing wikipedia, But i think "Oil crisis" should not be redirected to "Energy crisis". They're very different. Could someone remove that redirect or propose a stub for oil crisis? lennartvdm

I thought I did this... Redirecting to Hubbert peak theory, which I think is the most appropriate place. Graft 12:58, 19 January 2006 (UTC)