June 10, 2008

Why can’t you have sensible long term contracts in oil?

Just the sheer possibility of losing a tenure based on no particular fault of their own, could do wonders for the educational system, infusing it with a minimum required dose of uncertainty, and thereby allowing tenured professors to at least to understand the concept of anxiety.

Sir in “Double, or quit?” June 10, you say that “Volatile prices get in the way of sensible medium-term contracts to produce or deliver oil-intensive goods and services” June 10 and you are right but why on earth you cannot extrapolate that into the need for sensible medium-term or even long term contracts for oil itself, to bring down that uncertainty that hinders more investment is indeed very hard to understand.