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Celebrating the high price of oil ... kind of
Increased attractiveness of alternative energy is some consolation |
Jason D Scorse |
08 Mar 2008 |
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| Oil just passed the $106 mark, putting it well above the inflation-adjusted record set just a few days ago. In an earlier post, I predicted that the price of oil would go down. So far I have obviously been wrong, although I suspect that the price will decline by the end of the year since this seems awfully like a part of the greater speculative commodity bubble we are witnessing. But putting that aside for a moment, there is one great benefit of the high price of o ... |
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| Topics: carbon tax, economy, energy, oil, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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