71. President Clinton moved up the sale of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to increase oil supplies and deflate prices. 72. Prices have also been abated by a relatively mild winter, which lessens the demand for heating oil and allows refiners to increase supply of gas, Spring said. 73. Price caps will not increase supply or reduce demand. 74. Pork prices had fallen as meatpackers slaughtered more hogs, increasing the supply of meat before the holiday season, when hams are in high demand. 75. Putin also has announced that Russia will increase its supplies to the Northern Alliance rebels fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan. 76. Rather, experience taught that the more probable effect was for unemployed workers to swell the labor pool, increase supply, and thus drive down wages. 77. Recent reports indicate that two new drug refineries were opened along the border between Burma and India in order to increase the supply of heroin to India. 78. Refineries are already operating at or near capacity, so increasing the supply of gasoline will be difficult. 79. Reliable child care and transportation are part of the solution, and many states are making new efforts to increase the supply of both, though formidable challenges remain. 80. Price caps, they say, can indeed increase supply. |