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Offline muckmaw

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« on: March 23, 2004, 02:21:21 PM »
Something struck me as I was reading this article....

Could OPEC be trying to influence the U.S. Election in favor of Kerrry by artificially inflating the price of oil?

I mean, let's face it...ol' GWB is not to popular in the Middle East these days.


Should I break out my Tin foil hat now?

http://news.myway.com/top/article/id/123831|top|03-23-2004::10:45|reuters.html
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Offline Holden McGroin

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« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2004, 02:23:51 PM »
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Could OPEC be trying to influence the U.S. Election...


Why not? Everyone else tries to...
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« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2004, 06:07:16 PM »
How much money is being funneled into the DNP HQ from that side of the world. Could they be the "foriegn leaders" endorsing Kerry?  :p
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Offline Lizking

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« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2004, 07:52:05 PM »
Um, blood for oil, Bush as an oil interest lacky, etc?  What happened to that liberal democrat theory?
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Offline lord dolf vader

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« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2004, 09:12:14 PM »
hint, oil interests (u.s. oil companys)and opec are not the same thing.
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Offline Lizking

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« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2004, 09:45:11 PM »
LOL, OK.
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« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2004, 05:12:46 AM »
'lol' all you want Gadfly, but the US (Western) Oil Companies and OPEC don't sit on the same side of the fence. If they could, the oil companies would be buying the oil for peanuts and selling it with a unprecedented mark-up. OPEC protects the Gulf states from exploitation.

And if you don't think the Iraq war was a strategic move to secure future oil supply, there isn't much hope for you.
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« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2004, 07:50:25 AM »
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And if you don't think the Iraq war was a strategic move to secure future oil supply, there isn't much hope for you.


There were a ton of posters on this board (Left of center) saying it was "Blood for oil" a year ago if you remember.
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Offline Lizking

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« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2004, 08:32:30 AM »
So which one, OPEC or US oil is the side that wants low prices or high production cost?
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Offline midnight Target

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« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2004, 10:06:14 AM »
All I know is... as the price per barrel goes up.....so does the economy in Crawford.

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Offline Lizking

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« Reply #10 on: March 24, 2004, 02:35:28 PM »
The only thing that helps the economy in Crawford is the absence of drought.  I will assume you have never been anywhere around there?
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« Reply #11 on: March 24, 2004, 04:32:31 PM »
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The only thing that helps the economy in Crawford is the absence of drought.  I will assume you have never been anywhere around there?


Know it well. Hot, dry, lots of scorpions and armadillos.

wait a minute... that decribes all of Texas west of San Antonio.
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Offline Lizking

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« Reply #12 on: March 24, 2004, 05:11:09 PM »
Well, the difference is that there is a lot of oil scattered around west Texas, but there isn't any, or any business's involved with oil around Crawford.
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« Reply #13 on: March 24, 2004, 05:16:19 PM »
I can be bought, if any Arabs want to send me, oh say, half million, I will vote however they want.   :D


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