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>Oil is a managed market.
>There is not some fixed visible source.

Not visible, but based on the oil companies' own calculations and common sense, it is safe to say that the resource is diminishing. Right now we are discovering new oil fields that contain less oil than is currently being consumed around the world in the same time frame. You do the math...

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>Yes and it comes up again in the East in the Northern hemisphere.
>Are you refering to linear or Euclidean geometry?

I don't really care. My point is that if you observe change, you will know where it is going.
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>The GM executive I referred to in his first career designed navigational systems for NASA that put the man on the moon.

Evidently then he knows his math, and GM should have promoted him quickly to the top post. Maybe then GM would have taken a different path and wouldn't be in the dire straits it is now.

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>He was from Texas.

I see.


Anyhow. Be that as it may, the GM/MS analogy is a good one.