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- From: rcanders@nyx.cs.du.edu (Rod Anderson)
- Subject: Re: NEWS: Oil Use Could b
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.055823.17526@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 05:58:23 GMT
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- In article <5742.1017.uupcb@spacebbs.com> john.holmgren@spacebbs.com (John Holmgren) writes:
- >PD>What these no-more-oil-use fantasies ignore is the response of the oil
- >PD>market. The OPEC countries would respond as follows. First, they
- >PD>would view this as a threat to the long term market for oil. So they
- >PD>would have no incentive to preserve their oil stockpiles. OPEC
- >PD>production (mainly, mideast production) would increase, as the
- >PD>countries try to maintain their accustomed incomes. Oil prices would
- >PD>fall.
- > Yes, exactly so. Which is why it's foolhardy to fuss with the market.
- >The best alternative is to remove oil SUBSIDIES, which were contrived for
- >domestic producers, and which just enrich OPEC guys. Let alternative fuels
- >develop on a level playing field, and at the same time exact a cost for
- >pollution.
- >
- Please list these Subsidies and give some examples. I am not aware of all of
- them. There are subsidies for some alternate fuels like alcohol from
- corn at least in some farm states.
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