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Defending the Price of Oil

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Potential surpluses of oil have been around for a very long time; as a consequence, the defense of prices has always required continually renewed vigilance. It is true that there have been short periods of temporary scarcity and, from time to time, fears of an imminent long-run scarcity, as in the 1920s in the United States and again today. But for at least 60 years, the oil industry seems to have been more concerned with maintaining prices against the pressure of surpluses. "Competition" was always the scapegoat, for in spite of the strong monopolistic elements in the organization of the industry, gluts were the direct result of the behavior of oil companies as they competed to discover and control crude oil production and markets.

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  • Dr. Edith Penrose, 1988. "Defending the Price of Oil," The Energy Journal, International Association for Energy Economics, vol. 0(Number 1), pages 19-25.
    • Handle: RePEc:aen:journl:1988v09-01-a02
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