"The Saudis know that sustained high prices weaken economic activity, decrease demand and encourage non-OPEC production.
But instead, oil fell on the belief that a cooling global economy would decrease demand for energy.
Such a process, if implemented on a grand enough scale, could decrease demand for illegal routes to Europe, and increase refugees' faith in the formal channels of resettlement.
As for reducing deforestation, a stove that burns only part of the fuel is likely to increase, not decrease, demand for wood.
Cattle prices continued to plunge on Friday as traders worried that fears about contaminated meat, which can cause a fatal disease in humans, would sharply decrease demand for beef.
He demonstrated that the advice to workers to save against unemployment and old-age would have the effect of reducing expenditure all round, decrease demand, and the lowering of wages, more unemployment and make the situation worse than before.
Government safety net programs can decrease demand for private index insurance, forming an additional barrier to index insurance take-up.
Decrease demand, increase supply, decrease the price.
So, we have to solve climate change but we can't do it simply by increasing prices on fossil fuels to decrease demand.
