Why did the united states government place price controls on petroleum companies in the early 1970s?
a) oil companies needed more money in order to increase exploration.
b) oil executives had been criticized for spending money wastefully.
c) there was an international oil embargo that caused gas prices to rise.
d) people were refusing to buy gasoline because of its link to terrorist groups.

Im pretty sure the anwer is b almost positive

Explanation:

the reform movements that arose during the antebellum period in america focused on specific issues: temperance, abolishing imprisonment for debt, pacifism, antislavery, abolishing capital punishment, amelioration of prison conditions (with prison's purpose reconceived as rehabilitation rather than punishment), the humane treatment of animals, the humane and just treatment of native americans, the establishment of public institutions for the care of the destitute, orphans, blind, and mentally ill, the establishment of public schools, the abolition of tobacco use, vegetarianism, health reform, homeopathic medicine, woman's rights (including, at first, especially the establishment of a woman's right to own property apart from her husband and her right to sue for divorce), and the amelioration of labor conditions (including higher pay, the right to form unions, the right to strike, and the demand for limits on the number of work hours, and safe working conditions).

explanation:

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