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Hello and welcome to the Witness Podcast from the BBC World Service with me Alex Last.

And today we hear an inside account of the oil crisis we shock the world in 1973.

I know that we are cheated.

All the oil producing countries know that they are cheated.

Otherwise you would not have had this

come in front. In the early 1970s the world witnessed a struggle for the

control of oil. The people from the Arab world are talking about tripling the price or keeping it all to themselves.

You know, it wouldn't really be in their long-term interest. I would guess they will come to see this.

The era of a very cheap source of energy is gun and this is a new era. Now don't expect

the producers to accept something much below than what the market forces will indicate for their oil.

For much of the 20th century, the global oil industry had been dominated by a cartel of seven major

Western oil companies known as the Seven Sisters who between them controlled some

85% of the world's oil reserves. They set the price and they kept it low.

But from the 1950s, oil-producing nations began to demand a greater say in fixing the price of their own oil, control of its production and a

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