Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Specifically it will discuss how the United States deals with OPEC and oil prices, and how the United States has failed to create a viable energy policy that will allow the country not to depend on OPEC's control of the oil market. OPEC is a group of countries that export oil around the world that have banded together to control the supply and price of oil. The United States heavily depends on oil from the OPEC nations, which is one reason that the country's oil prices have risen so dramatically in the past year or so. OPEC controls the world when it comes to oil, and the United States has not learned how to deal with OPEC effectively, and so Americans are paying the price at the pumps.

OPEC was formed in 1960 by the oil-producing countries primarily in the Middle East as a reaction to...
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