Businesses will be affected by increases in the direct costs of producing and transporting their products or inputs. Businesses will also be affected indirectly, however, by significant changes in demand for some products. Every economic sector is likely to produce both winners and losers.
Manufacturers of products that are energy-intensive to produce will likely be among the first businesses to experience the adverse impacts of peak oil. In particular, suppliers of inexpensive raw materials that require high amounts of energy to extract or harvest and imported semi-processed components that are energy-intensive to manufacture may be some of the first to face increasing costs.
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