Dirt cheap. (energy prices will remain stable for the next few years) (Energy and the Environment)

The Economist (US) | August 31, 1991 | Copyright

Left to the market,

real energy prices

not likely to rise

much in the next

few years

ONLY in the past 20 years have most companies and individuals given much thought to saving energy. The reason is not just a lack of interest in green issues; more significant, die century until then had seen a general stability, or even decline, in die price of energy. That came to an end with the oil-price shocks of 1973-74 and of 1979, which pulled up other energy prices in their wake. in 1979 the real price of crude oil stood more than six ...

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