Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: M. A. Adelman Title: The Competitive Floor to World Oil Prices Classification-JEL: F0 Pages: 9-31 Volume: Volume 7 Issue: Number 4 Year: 1986 Abstract: Years ago, I suggested that there was no current or impending oil shortage. Growing consumption, static U.S. production, and other reasons offered then and now did not imply that prices would rise. That conclusion only made sense if the pressure on reserves was increasing, a situation that would be signaled by rising costs of maintaining and expanding output. There was and is no sign of this. Handle: RePEc:aen:journl:1986v07-04-a01 File-URL: http://www.iaee.org/en/publications/ejarticle.aspx?id=1795 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to IAEE members and subscribers.