Demand drives the price up. Supply shortages would be cause for offshore drilling. I am an ROV pilot in the Oil & Gas Industry and trust me we have enough supply. There just needs to be more demand for oil.
<span>There was the Sherman Act, the first of the anti-trust laws, which disallowed monopolies, and price fixing. to ensure the consumer a fair price by preventing one company from controlling an entire market, thereby insuring a particular product would need to be priced competitively.
There was also the Interstate Commerce Act which prohibited the railroads from both price gouging and price discrimination, ie. charging more for smaller loads and shorter distances, which greatly affected small business like farmers, who couldn't afford to pay more for less, and big businesses were paying less for more. Sound familiar? This Act forced railroads to have one fair rate applying to everyone, and it must be posted for all to see.</span>
Answer:
January 1, 2016:
Dr Accumulated Depreciation account 12,000
Cr Cash account 12,000
Explanation:
The accumulated depreciation account is a contra asset account used to record all the incurred depreciation expense since the asset (or assets) was being used or put into service.
Since the repairs extended the life cycle of the asset, then its accumulated depreciation decreases.
