The Energy Crisis: 2022 vs 1973
Dan Snow's History Hit
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🗓️ 2 October 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
A long dark, cold winter looms with soaring energy prices. Some of the advice we've heard recently includes buying a new kettle or taking a flannel bath...echoing previous advice given during the brutal fuel crisis of 1973. The Arab–Israeli War sent oil sky high and Britain saw a wave of crises from rolling strikes to energy shortages but the 1970s saw a fuel shortage and what we're facing now is fuel at inflated prices. Any sense of communal struggle and national unity is absent this time. Making sense of what we're facing today, historian Alwyn Turner joins Dan on the podcast to look at similarities in how people coped, how the government responded and also the big differences.
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| 0:00.0 | You'll love Azda's extra special, extra indulgent mince pies this Christmas |
| 0:04.8 | because not only are they tested and approved by the Good Housekeeping Institute 2022, |
| 0:09.4 | but they'll also add to your Azda rewards cashpot. |
| 0:12.8 | Preach £2.50 pack of four, you'll get £1.50 back in your cashpot, |
| 0:17.2 | so you'll feel like a winner. |
| 0:20.9 | Apple Mobile data required full terms and conditions at Azda.com's |
| 0:23.8 | cash rewards selected as the store's subject availability, |
| 0:26.2 | as the pounds must be spent at Azda in store or online and 23rd November. |
| 0:30.0 | Every household will get help with energy bills this winter. |
| 0:34.4 | The UK Government is giving you an extra £400 to ward your bills. |
| 0:40.3 | For most households, payments are automatic. |
| 0:44.2 | If you're on a traditional pre-payment meter, you'll receive vouchers. |
| 0:49.1 | You will also get even more help with your bills, with the energy price guaranteed. |
| 0:53.8 | Find out more at gov.uk forward slash help for households today. |
| 1:02.4 | Hi, everybody. Welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit, a long, dark, cold winter lies ahead of us. |
| 1:09.0 | Britain and the rest of the world is in the midst of a fuel crisis. |
| 1:13.9 | But fear not, Britain's former Prime Minister Boris Johnson had the solution. |
| 1:19.8 | Buy new kettle, folks. Buy new kettle and save £10 a year on your electricity bills. |
| 1:27.2 | You'll be surprised to learn that very helpful interjection by our former Prime Minister, |
| 1:31.7 | echoed previous advice given out during a brutal fuel crisis. |
| 1:37.6 | Starting in the autumn of 1973, the world was thrust into an oil crisis by the Arab-Israeli |
| 1:44.1 | October War, known as the Yom Kippur War. |
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