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But that's what we were saying for $50 dollar oil, and $60 oil, and demand growth did not even slow! Not only is demand not going down, but its rate of increase has not even gone down!

We'll need much more brutal prices changes to have an impact on oil consumption.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sun Jan 22nd, 2006 at 02:54:52 PM EST
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No if the demand is inelastic. It means that for certain prices there is almos no change in demand, or even increase, and then, suddenly, at a certain price the demands breaks down. Just as an inelastic material could do when a certain tension is applied.

I really hope that this will be the dynamics. But I could be wrong

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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Sun Jan 22nd, 2006 at 03:25:45 PM EST
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This is a great image... The oil market is strong but brittle.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jan 22nd, 2006 at 03:29:59 PM EST
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