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Fuel prices moving up, just in time for spring boating and driving?
"Fred Dehl" wrote in message
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"Doug Kanter" wrote in
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"Fred Dehl" wrote in message
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wrote in
oups.com:
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.
If you prefer no dent at all to any dent, you're an envirofreak.
A dent is nice, but sometimes the cost is too high.
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