Re: Re: Hubbert

[ALI KADRI <akadri_00@xxxxxxxxx>]

this raises the question what is best for imperialism a socially progressive oil country or a regressive one. 

  Chris Burford <cburford@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> At 06/11/01 15:01 -0800, you wrote:
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> > http://www.prospect.org/print/V12/18/deffeyes-k.html
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> >I suspect that the OPEC countries know that a global shortage may be only 
> >a few years away; and if they can trickle out just enough oil to keep the 
> >world economies functioning until that glorious day, they can market their 
> >remaining crude at mind-boggling prices.
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> It is now clear that Saudi Arabia's fundamentalist version of islam 
> includes a discreet widespread tolerance for islamic militancy and even 
> terrorism. Should we assume that leading circles in the regime, like the 
> Crown Prince, are indeed quietly thinking along the lines indicated above?
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> Is this already shifting the power relations during the War against 
> Terrorism, so that Bush realises he cannot confront the Saudi government 
> and will have to try to wi!
> n it over with substantial concessions by Israel?
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> This is the sense in which the war is a war about global oil supplies, 
> played out by proxy.
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> >the realization that the change is permanent may be as devastating as the 
> >shortage itself.
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> Chris Burford
>
> London

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