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Crude Oil: The Source Of Higher Prices?

April 7, 2004
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Decisions by the oil cartel to increase crude prices have cost consumers, but private business decisions about stockpiles and product supply, and the failure of public policy to slow the growth of demand by promoting efficiency, have cost much more.

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