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[email protected]. HIGH OCTANE? A Primer on Energy Economics by D.P. Diffine, Ph.D. , Director Belden Center for Private Enterprise Education Professor of Economics HARDING UNIVERSITY Searcy, Arkansas A Commemorative Issue of The Entrepreneur a quarterly journal of the Belden Center for Private Enterprise Education All rights reserved Copyright April 2000 Requests for permission to reproduce this publication should be addressed ir. writing as follows: D. P. Diffine Harding University Box 12245 Searcy, Arkansas 72149-0001 (501) 279-44 70 Fax: (501) 279-4195 e-mail:
[email protected] TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Introduction ..................... 1 I. Over a Barrel in 2000 ........ 3 II. Has America Acted Fuelish? .... 5 Ill. When Peace Broke Out ....... 7 IV. Wartime Petronomics ........ 9 V. Oil In the Family ............ 13 VI.