Today as in 1973-1974, there is a major transfer of resources from oil consumers to oil producers. Trying to deny that there is such a transfer of resources to oil producers is and would be a major mistake.
If this limitation is precluded, the Justice Department urged the Board to exercise its statutory authority to expand the scope of exemptions so as to limit the scope of the statute to ties involving small businesses and individual consumers. The letter expressed concern that the anti-tying statute may prohibit some pro-competitive practices, in particular, multiproduct discounting.