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Mon 07 Jul 2008SCRAPING THE BARREL
Increased demand is an obvious reason for the alarming oil price rises, but several other forces are also playing their part, writes Michael Casey.
WHAT KIND of company persuades its customers to consume less of its products; spends great swathes of its money on items unrelated to its core business; doesn't manufacture the products it sells; and at a major triennial convention, does not display any of its products on any of the hundreds of exhibition stands?
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