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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fatima, post: 1129361, member: 22143&quot;]Well you are giving a very hypothetical situation that doesn&#039;t exist to make a point.&nbsp; I would contend that a bottle of water close enough to the desert where you could charge $100 without incurring transportation costs, doesn&#039;t exist.&nbsp; If transportation was essentially free in your scenario, then the $100 demand won&#039;t be there because the party who is thirsty can always make the same trip you did.&nbsp;&nbsp; Why would you assume that you would have an advantage which the buyer didn&#039;t?</p><p><br /></p><p>(I will leave out for now that a nice single serving of clean water in a convenient plastic bottle is a manufactured item.) </p><p><br /></p><p>On your point about natural resources, I would disagree.&nbsp;&nbsp; Water isn&#039;t something that can be shipped around the world and sold.&nbsp; It&#039;s relatively easy to get even in desert countries and it is extremely heavy.&nbsp;&nbsp; On the other hand it should be clear enough that oil is a resource makes a country very wealthy.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>You also contradicted yourself.&nbsp; You said that a country with natural resources doesn&#039;t mean riches.&nbsp; However you then proceeded to give examples, with the presumption the country had a monopoly on the resource, i.e. Salt &amp; Water, so they may charge monopolistic prices.&nbsp;&nbsp; It can&#039;t be both ways.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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