An increase in the relative price of oil raises the costs of energy-intensive production, making some plantandmachinery unprofitable.
石油相对价格的上涨会提高能源密集型产品的成本，这使得一些工厂和机械行业无利可图。
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The virtual organisation has few physical assets, reflecting the fact that adding value is becoming more dependent on (mobile) knowledge and less dependent on (immobile) plantandmachinery.
She notes that one of her co-authors, Amit Khandelwal, visited a Coca-Cola bottling plant in China, and noticed that all the machinery was either Japanese or German.