ABSTRACT
In many respects, The Netherlands came through the oil crisis rather well. The embargo soon proved ineffective, in the sense that Dutch oil imports at the end of 1973 were no more seriously depleted than those of other Western countries. Indeed, compared with several other West European countries, the oil supply to The Netherlands looked rather healthy. In a book on the oil crisis written from an Arab perspective, the conclusion was correctly drawn that ‘friendly states’ in Western Europe had suffered more from an embargo laid against The Netherlands than had The Netherlands itself. 1
