From: Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Restricting supplies to increase profits, huh? I wonder why no one else has thought of that? Ingenious. Why do businesses have sales, increase production, outsource, insource, import, export, when all they have to do is sit back and make more money by selling less?"
My two cents : The reason oil prices go up and profits increase when supplies decrease from my very limited Economics 101 is probably because of the lack of replacements for in oil products, which means the consumer (specially in the US) has no where to switch and hence consume less, this means demand holds pretty steady while prices go up ,usually demand would go down as consumers switch to cheaper alternatives. The answer is to probably for alternatives to be developed and that can only come when the we as consumers demand those alternatives. Sidney -- *************************************************** Sidney Fernandes [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***************************************************** _____________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. Goanet mailing list ([email protected])
