The Cost of Not Being Able to Extract and Sell

question 314

Multiple Choice

The cost of not being able to extract and sell a nonrenewable resource in the future (because it is being extracted in the present) is known by natural resource economists as the

• A)extraction cost.
• B)future cost.
• C)conservation cost.
• D)user cost.

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