1:12AM
Yo-yoing oil prices
Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 1:12AM
ARTICLE: "Big Oil Projects Put In Jeopardy By Fall In Prices," by Jad Mouawad, New York Times, 16 December 2008.
Underlying message: this is what killed capacity-building investment in the past and it's doing so today.
Reader Comments (1)
Sure, demand is contracting, but inevitably supply will also contract and usually by a greater degree (to rebuild profit margins) leading to a higher equalinrium price.
There's no such thing as a free crunch.