Re: This is soooo Obscene! (not x-rated)
Marsha wrote:
Oil companies are subject to market forces, just like other business.
Sort of. There's all kinds of manipulation going on in the Middle East.
It's known that the Saudis increase and decrease the amount of oil they
pump in order to tweak the market.
The Other Kim
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- Re: Bad News for the GOP: Inflation Rate Worst in *17* Years
... Consumer prices rose by 4.1 ... for both energy and food shot up by the largest amount since 1990. ... and just taken their damned oil. ... We have to sell the Saudis the weaponry, else they'll cut back on oil. ...
(rec.boats) - Re: Bad News for the GOP: Inflation Rate Worst in *17* Years
... WASHINGTON -- Higher costs for energy and food last year pushed inflation up by the largest amount in 17 years, even though prices generally remained tame outside of those two areas. ... I'm tellin' ya....we should've invaded Saudi Arabia instead of eye-rock, and just taken their damned oil. ... did you see our fearless leader begging in the Middle East for the Saudis to drill more? ...
(rec.boats) - Re: Retro Fashion Statement in Iran
... debatable is a decrease in fuel consumption will result in a higher ... total amount of Middle Eastern oil imported? ... Go back to the threads here about holding the Saudis at least as responsible as we did the fucking Libyans, and you'll see many people aghast at the thought of what would happen to our economy. ...
(rec.sport.football.college) - Re: Obama
... there would be nobody left to vote Republican." ... olly the relationship the Saudis have with the Bush Family has ... OPEC from pricing oil in some other currency. ...
(soc.retirement) - Re: Obama
... olly the relationship the Saudis have with the Bush Family has indeed benefited us. ... it's one of the major intangibles that keeps OPEC from pricing oil in some other currency. ... Which is why I say, in a perverse way, those under-the-table dealings, and I'm sure there were under-the-table deals, may now be protecting our currency. ... be easier to just price the oil in a more stable currency like euros if they don't want to use their own minority currency as a standard for all the other oil-exporting nations. ...
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