"If bin Laden takes over and becomes king of Saudi Arabia, he’d turn off the tap," said Roger Diwan, a managing director of the Petroleum Finance Company, a consulting firm in Washington. "He said at one point that he wants oil to be $144 a barrel" — about six times what it sells for now.
NY Times, Oct. 14, 2001
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That is fantastic. I think it is the first time oil has been under $150 a barrel in the last few years.
Rupert Murdoch said before the war, "The greatest thing to come out of this for the world economy...would be $20 a barrel for oil. That's bigger than any tax cut in any country....arrrh, matey!" He buttressed this statement when he later said, "Once [Iraq] is behind us, the whole world will benefit from...arrgh...cheaper oil which will be a bigger stimulus than anything else...arrghhhhhh."
Does this mean Blackwater is pocketing the extra $124 per barrel?
There are two hits on the Google for "America: soon to be the most irrelevant far-flung backwater in the al Qaeda caliphate," by the way.
Why does KO make me sound like a pirate? Does he have to have a signature sound, like Cheney with the wah? W with the heh-heh? Sarge with the yih? DJ & no problem? Smiff & ugh? French & surrender? Aaarghhh?
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