As a competitive economy uses its stocks of a depletable resource,

a. the resource price will fall by ever greater amounts each year.
b. the resource price will rise by ever greater amounts each year.
c. the use of the resource will increase at an increasing rate.
d. resource use will drop to zero.

b

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