What would happen if we didn't have oil?

如果我們沒有石油會發生什麼事？

Or if the price of oil goes suddenly up three or five times?

或是如果石油價格突然上漲三到五倍，會發生什麼事？

Well, many people would not be able to drive their cars around anymore.

很多人會無法到處開他們的車子。

Bus fares would go up, and we would not be able to use many things that depend on oil.

公車票價會上漲，我們也沒有辦法使用許多需要用油的東西。

Imagine how difficult are lives would be.

想像一下生活會變得多辛苦。

Well, this actually happened in 1973, and made many people change the way they thought about energy.

這在 1973 年實際發生過，也讓許多人改變對能源的看法。

Let's find out what happened.

我們來看這是怎麼發生的。

By 1970, wealthy, developed nations, such as the USA and countries in Western Europe were using a lot of oil.

在 1970 年之前，富裕的已開發國家，像是美國和西歐國家，使用大量的石油。

They imported oil from Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa.

他們從中東和北非的阿拉伯國家進口石油。

However, in 1973, the Arab-Israeli War broke out, and the United States decided to support Israel.

然而在 1973 年時，以阿戰爭爆發，美國決定支持以色列。

This angered many of the Arab countries and they decided not to sell their oil to the United States and its allies, mostly in Western Europe.

許多阿拉伯國家十分不滿，因此他們決定不把石油賣給美國和其聯盟國，大部分是西歐國家。

This led to major changes in the United States.

這帶給美國很大的改變。

Oil prices increased by four times in just three months.

油價在三個月內急速上漲四倍。

Gas stations did not have enough gas to sell.

加油站沒有足夠的石油。

As a result, prices for virtually everything went up in the US and Western Europe.

因此，在美國和西歐幾乎所有的東西都漲價。

After experiencing this, many people started thinking twice about their dependency on oil.

在經歷這個狀況後，許多人開始重新思考對於石油的依賴性。

This led to using other energy sources, such as nuclear and renewable energy.

這也讓人們開始使用其他能源，像是核能和再生能源。