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bucolic_frolic

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10. I'm no expert but there are always issues of storage capacity, transport capacity, and refining

Reply to mitch96 (Reply #9)

Wed May 12, 2021, 08:06 AM

May 2021

If the throughputs don't match in a system you have bottlenecks. If they can make money from throughput they're not going to prefer the cost of holding inventory and restraining output - capital at that time was not free like it is today. Inputs weren't rare, they would just drill more, so it can't have been a maximize dwindling input problem. Once consumer consumption is choked the system could back up. Somewhere there was a problem.

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