Thread: Food Crisis
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Unread 1 Jul 2008, 11:22   #16
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Re: Food Crisis

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Originally Posted by Mzyxptlk
The only thing about the fuel market that surprises me is that oil producing countries failed to realise sooner that they could just double the prices overnight, and still get filthily rich.
This is due to the fact that all this time they've been receiving enough money for their needs to ever really "need" more.

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Originally Posted by JohnnyBGood
Realistically though if you're an oil producing country you don't want intensive investment in viable alternative fuel sources so probably sky-high prices aren't a good idea.
Or then you're shortsighted and simply don't give a ****. Realistically, any viable alternative for traditional "fuel" is far-fetched, except perhaps electricity (hail traditional fuel, or possibly nuclear power - let's face it, the don quijote method isn't scoring high enough). If you look at how things generally go in the countries mentioned, you can quite easily question whether they actually give a damn about most things.
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