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Order Number	00058930
Title	Chevron gas price surge
Photographer	Sergieff, Mike.
Collection ID	Herald Examiner Collection
Location/Accession	HE Box Gas Stations
Date	1979
Physical Description	1 photographic print : b&w ; 32 x 25.5 cm.
Historical Data	The 1979 Oil Crisis was an energy crisis characterized by a precipitous drop in oil production for the second time in the 1970s (the first being in 1973). In the wake of the Iranian Revolution, 37,000 Iranian oil refinery employees went on strike in 1978, causing Iran's oil refineries to go from producing 6 million barrels per day to 1.5 million barrels per day. The global oil supply decreased by 7 percent, causing a surge in oil pricing and within 12 months oil markets had doubled to $39.50 per barrel. This surge caused major gas shortages, long gas lines, and panic buying. In the United States, the Jimmy Carter administration began a phased deregulation of oil prices on April 5, 1979, which allowed U.S. oil output to rise sharply from the Prudhoe Bay fields in Alaska, while oil imports fell sharply. It wasn't until the mid-1980s that oil prices returned to pre-crisis levels.
Description	Photograph caption dated April 22, 1979 reads, "Chevron dealer Rabi Kassam doesn't think it's unusual anymore when a customer pays $15 for a fill-up." Photograph depicts Chevron dealer Rabi Kassam at a pump station, located at Rosecrans and Vermont Avenue.
Subject	Chevron Oil Company. Service stations. Gasoline pumps. Gasoline supply. Gas companies. Automobiles. Signs and signboards. Price marks. Women. Men. Gardena (Calif.).
Coverage	1970; 1971; 1972; 1973; 1974; 1975; 1976; 1977; 1978; 1979
Format	Photographic prints
Rights	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Internal Notes	See Folder Record HERALD-58911-58939 for upload information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection