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Facts and Principles of World Petroleum Occurrence — Memoir 6, 1980
Pages 377-389
Petroleum Supply and Demand: Geology, Politics and Economics

World Supply and Demand

M. A. Adelman

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The energy “gap” or “shortage” is logical nonsense. An oil “price break” upwards is possible, but unlikely. There is an interrelated system of demand; supply potential; monopoly control by the OPEC nations; effects of crude oil price changes on the world economy and on consumer-nations policies.

Some preliminary results of the World Petroleum Project at M.I.T. are:

1. slow consumption growth because of lower income growth, the delayed effects of higher prices in 1973-74, and future increases;

2. complex effects on supply of higher oil prices which (depending on government action) may increase or decrease investment and capacity;

3. excess capacity and also higher prices through the 1980’s unless the monopoly is unexpectedly destroyed;

4. great uncertainty must itself be factored into the policies of business and government.


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