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The roe of OPEC is to regulate the petroleum industries among member countries. OPEC stands for Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.
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The 1973 Oil Crisis.
OPEC is the organization that controls the world's production and price of oil. The members of OPEC come from twelve oil producing states.
It controls the amount of middle east oil released for sale to the world, and most of the world's oil comes from the middle east. Almost every nation on the planet Earth depends on OPEC to supply their oil requirements.
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The US is vulnerable to OPEC because of the oil import. There is about 40% oil in OPEC countries.
OPEC controls most of the worlds oil source.
America is not part of OPEC (Organization of PetroleumExporting Countries) because we do not export oil - only a very small amount. Also, OPEC was created by and for the participating countries (majorly middle east and third world) to guarantee that they would profit from America's use of oil - we are the biggest consumers of oil in the world.
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OPEC is an alliance formed by the oil producing countries of the world who collude and decide on how much oil to produce, keeping the cost higher than it should be.