abstract:In computer science, resource contention is a conflict over access to a shared resource such as random access memory, disk storage, cache memory, internal busses or external network devices. In recent years, research on the contention is more focused on the resources in the memory hierarchy, e.
Now, any tax break for natural resource extraction is in itself is a point of contention among environmentalists, myself included, but I will leave those arguments aside for now and focus on the purely economic issue with this tax deduction.