Imagine you are the owner of a natural gas company. You can either extract as much of the resource as fast as possible or delay extraction until a future time. Projections indicate that the price of natural gas is expected to fall in the future. What would you do in the present?   a. Sell as much natural gas as possible now and less in the future—reflected by a rightward shift of the current supply curve in the future. B.  Sell as much natural gas as possible now and less in the future—reflected by a movement down the current supply curve.C.  Sell as much natural gas as possible now and less in the future—reflected by a movement up the current supply curve.D.  Sell as little natural gas as possible in the present and delay extraction until the future—reflected by a leftward shift of the current supply curve in the future.

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Imagine you are the owner of a natural gas company. You can either extract as much of the resource as fast as possible or delay extraction until a future time. Projections indicate that the price of natural gas is expected to fall in the future. What would you do in the present?

  a. Sell as much natural gas as possible now and less in the future—reflected by a rightward shift of the current supply curve in the future. B.  Sell as much natural gas as possible now and less in the future—reflected by a movement down the current supply curve.C.  Sell as much natural gas as possible now and less in the future—reflected by a movement up the current supply curve.D.  Sell as little natural gas as possible in the present and delay extraction until the future—reflected by a leftward shift of the current supply curve in the future. 

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