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The Economics of Oil

looking at the macroeconomic impact of oil during the oil shock of the 1970s and the more resent oil crisis the highly complex inf...

The High Price of Gas in the Third Quarter of 2006

out that while oil prices are rising, the oil companies are profiting a great deal (Noe, 2006). An article appearing on the ABC N...

Economics of Gas Prices

Though oil companies will not admit to any extra profit generation, they do concede that many locales require additional treatment...

Gas Prices Assessed Econometrically

to modern business. OPEC began increasing oil prices less than two years later; the country and indeed the entire developed world...

Gas Prices: What Needs To Be Done To Lower Them?

are at the mercy of todays inflated costs due to how large a role travel plays in their jobs. To decrease usage would mean to suf...

OIL AND THE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS CONNECTION

Before we take on an explanation of oil and petroleum on a global scale, we first need to understand how the "liquid gold," as...

International Trade Increases and Oil Price Impacts

and as such this theory was built upon and developed by theorists such as Ricardo, which helps to explain, to a greater extent, wh...

Supply and Demand's Effect at the Pump

more of it; and the price is increasing. The law of supply and demand holds that as supply increases, price decreases (Sosi...

Government's Role in the Rising of Gas Prices

dedicate their facilities to distilling one kind of gasoline or the other. Its very costly and time-consuming to retool refineries...

Macroeconomics; The Price of Oil

price was higher in real terms than it is today. It is also worth noting that the major peak seen towards the right of the chart b...

Oil Production Questions

would reduce the delays in the process, possibly by a considerable level (Marathon, 2010). Tools such as pumps within the pipeline...

Gas Pricing and Cenex Case Study

cents a gallon. This tax is paid directly by the consumer, and producers have few choices available to them in efforts to maintai...

Economics Questions

to pay the lowest likely price for the goods or services they desire. This is the situation in comparison to an oligopolistic or m...

Business Proposal for Mobile Oil Change, LLC

It appeals to businesses that have their own fleet mechanics and those that do not. Those businesses that maintain their own flee...

Costs of Petroleum Products in the United States and Europe

This paper consists of five pages and discusses why in Europe oil and gas is more expensive than these petroleum products are in A...

Saudi Arabia and Environmental Issues

navy in the northern Persian Gulf when smuggling oil form Iraq in the. This resulted in a three mile wide oil slick that places t...

Loss of Well Integrity

This essay discusses maintaining oil and gas well integrity and identifies guidelines for safety. The BP Deepwater event is used a...

Low Tech Options for Reducing our Continued Dependence on Foreign Oil

past few months, the exorbitantly high prices we have been forced to pay at the pump in that last year remind us that depending on...

Global Influences in the Liquor Industry in the 21st Century

and vodka, the cross-category acceptance of substitution by consumers is low, as may be expected with a diversified industry (Mint...

The Rising and Lowering of Gas Prices

was the largest quarterly profit ever for a U.S. company" (Noe, 2006). Mann (2006) writes: " Despite an 11 percent fall in Florida...

THE ECONOMICS OF ENERGY: FLUCTUATING GAS PRICES

increases in crude oil, rather than the law of supply and demand (Andrews, 2007). Economists point out that gasoline deman...

Channel and Pricing Recommendations for a New Commercial Services Firm

the market are prepared to pay a premium. In the case of the oil change service this may be a new and differentiated service, but ...

The Oil Industry

the top 10 producers of oil, comparing 2006 with 2008, looking not only the position in terms of being a major oil producer, but a...

ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR - AN ANALYSIS

than the other - as in many cases, there is no such thing as "pure" Keynesian or "pure" monetarism (which is what the Chicago Scho...

Pricing Strategy of British Gas

a need for a company to understand what the result on any price increase or decrease will on both the sales and the total revenue ...

Oil Prices

The writer looks at the different events or influences that could result in oil prices increasing. Events such as war, natural di...

Gasoline Prices Change and a Reflection of Supply and Demand

way prices are expected to change, the AAA, which has been taking weekly surveys of prices from 2,8000 gas station in the state ha...

There is No End in Sight to High Gasoline Prices

course, while people today shudder at the thought of oil prices of more than $100 per barrel, it is prudent to discuss how that tr...

Elasticity of Oil Prices

Asian oil fields, the worldwide supply of oil was rather stable and predictable. Demand remained rather constant, though seasonal...

IMPACT OF OIL PRICES ON THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY

One of the culprits of all of this change involved spiking oil prices, which led to an increase in gas prices at the pump. This, i...