Whether they do depends as much on geopolitics as geology — the vagaries of market speculation on future oil prices and how
much economic pain private oil companies can take compared with their national oil company counterparts, like Saudi Arabia's Aramco.
We also asked voters how
much economic pain they were prepared to suffer to break free of Brussels control.
Not exact matches
Economic sanctions on already poor countries may cause as
much death and
pain as abortion on demand.
But in welcoming this, Sarkozy was at
pains to point out the distinction between the
much greater
economic policy integration amongst the euro 17 countries, and what he called the «confederal» future that the wider, still enlarging EU faces.
I doubt anyone who pays
much attention to climate change believes that BAU is a recipe for a
pain - free
economic.