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This article describes how oil has become less elastic through the past years. It also discusses the balance between the scarcity of oil and the demand being supplied and the quantity demand. Oil is still in the ground, and it has been supplied frequently the past ten years, but there is some economical decisions to make to set the standard for the future of oil.

The demand of oil has been increasing over the past year which is playing a role on the demand and supply balance. Because the demand in oil is increasing, the price of the oil would also increase. It takes longer for oil to be drilled from the ground which causes the oil to take longer time and a change to the response in price. "In economic terms, the oil supply is becoming less elastic as new oil supplies come increasingly from unconventional oil." The demand for oil reflects on how much we need oil in our everyday life. Individual people can reduce the amount of oil they use by using public transportation, if where you want to go is close by. This saves gas and oil because you do not need your car and the bus would carry a lot of people.

This article describes the change in oil prices on the population. The article states that the supply of oil is becomming less elastic and therefore there is a increase in price. The way to win oil becomes harder, because deeper holes have to be made to extract it from the earth. The article furthermore looks into changes from an economical point of view. It looks at examples of what can be changed and where changes have been made.

This article discusses how the car sales have been hurt in the past due to the recession. The article talks about how the private sector has become a bigger target for the car companies. The elasticity of supply has grown to fit this curve, causing the car companies to gain some more profit that they had in the past. The companies also began to target people that care more about the environment, selling many more low emission type cars. They had to adapt to what the demand was, causing their elasticity of supply to grow to fit many wants.

The article says that the number of cars sold in the past has decreased. However the market for cars has recovered. The articled shows how companies adapted to the changing needs of customers. Customers now want more fuel efficient cars and often buy them on the private market. This causes the elasticity of supply of these companies to increase because they quickly had to adapt to the new situation.

the article talks about a change in the income tax paid by the highest bracket of the English economy; this means that all the money earned above £130,000 will have to pay 50p per pound (50%) rather than 40p per pound. Economists predict that the income change will not have any effect on the earnings as the income elasticity of the bracket of economy is 0.46.

The article talks about how the company experiences extreme losses in revenue as they supplied a smaller quantity of flights. This can be related to elasticity of supply since as supply decreased, revenue did too.

This article goes over the supply elasticities of many products seeing shortages after the hurricane in New York and New Jersey. It talks about the inelasticity of the PES for hotel rooms. The determinant for this is time period. More hotel rooms are needed, but they can't be built in a week. The article also talks about the price of gas, and how the demand for gas is almost perfectly inelastic, meaning that gas can be sold for a huge price. The article asks the question, should the scarce resources go to those who can pay the most for them, or those in line first? This goes with the moral question asked in the discussion of the reading.

The article shows that that oil has a big influence on a lot of products. In this case it increased the price of sugar by 20%. This might seem a lot so you would expect the demand for sugar to decrease. However since sugar does not cost a lot, a 20% increase in the price will not make a big difference. An increase of a few cents of the consumers bill will also hardly be noticed. The price elasticity in this example is very low.

This article talks about Lenovo's vision of growing demand for their 7-inch tablets. It suggests combinations of substitutes and complement goods, which has to do with the value of XED. They see tablets as competitors for large-screen smartphones (like Samsung S3), but also as something that will not replace traditional computers. So, value of XED in combination tablets - smartphones is positive, meaning that these two goods are substitutes, whereas the value of XED in combination tablets - computers is negative, meaning that these two goods are complements. Lenovo also suggests that they are prepared for the steady supply of high-resolution touch screens for which they see a bright future as components of computers. So, it is also about non-determinant of supply - expectation for future prices.

Gas being an inelastic product, has a small change in demand if the price is increased. It was a good time to increase the price of oil because "The improvement in the nation's economic health has increased demand for oil" so there would be an increase in revenue if the price was increased.