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"Fred Dehl" wrote in message
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I'd order only 17 boats, proclaim a "shortage", and
demand a premium price from each buyer as I let each one know they were
just darn lucky to be able to buy a boat at all. If I jack the price up
high enough, the profits on those 17 boats would exceed the profits
realized on 25 boats sold at competitive prices. However, in the real
world where there is actual competition, my business plan to create a
false shortage would fail. Somebody selling another boat across town
would realize "Gould is driving away prospects with his high prices, so
instead of the 25 boats *we* normally order in a year this year we'll
order 33. We may have to discount them a little to be sure we don't get
stuck with a lot of inventory in the fall...." That's how the system is
supposed to work

Yes. Thank-you for exposing the fallacy of "predatory pricing".

Following from that I must conclude you're a big supporter of Wal-Mart.

but the oil companies seem to be in collusion rather
than competition these days.

The problem is that the oil co's are all buying the same raw material from
the same producers and therefore ALL of their prices are going to rise and
fall in tandem. This looks like collusion.

Obviously the solution is to increase the number of producers, and have
them under US control rather than beholden to the instability and
hostility of foreign regions. That means, at a MINIMUM, offshore and
ANWR.

ANWR would barely make a dent. Even the oil companies have stated this.