They placed a price control on petroleum companies because the oil crisis was getting out of hand. There was an embargo on countries that produced oil and on oil trading and prices were skyrocketing, going up from 3$ per barrel to a 12$ per barrel, and even more in many countries. Without the price regulations the prices could go even higher and the oil industry could collapse because people wouldn't buy oil.
It's the revolutionary war also known as "The American Revolution"
The French invasion of Spain under Napoleon, also known as the <span>Peninsular War, was in the duration from 1807 till 1814.
</span>This invasion affected the Spanish colonies in the Americas as several colonies started to rebel in order to gain to gain their own independence from Spain.