Bluth Corporation
30-12-2008, 23:50
Would anyone be interested in participating? If so, do you have any input?
One problem I foresee immediately is either dumping, or people just producing absurdly large amounts of oil for the market. Perhaps to combat this, upon registering as an oil seller, countries would be given an account the initial size of which is based upon, say, their GDP as given by the Thirdgeek calculator. Each barrel of oil put on the market would cost X amount of dollars (to represent the cost of getting that oil out of the ground), which would be deducted from this account. Upon selling that oil, then, sellers can designate what percentage of the gross income from that sale is to be added back to their account, and they can use the rest for their IC budgeting (no way to enforce the latter bit, of course, and we needn't care--for the purposes of the oil market, all we need to care about is that they don't produce more than their account allows for).
One problem I foresee immediately is either dumping, or people just producing absurdly large amounts of oil for the market. Perhaps to combat this, upon registering as an oil seller, countries would be given an account the initial size of which is based upon, say, their GDP as given by the Thirdgeek calculator. Each barrel of oil put on the market would cost X amount of dollars (to represent the cost of getting that oil out of the ground), which would be deducted from this account. Upon selling that oil, then, sellers can designate what percentage of the gross income from that sale is to be added back to their account, and they can use the rest for their IC budgeting (no way to enforce the latter bit, of course, and we needn't care--for the purposes of the oil market, all we need to care about is that they don't produce more than their account allows for).