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Rosemary2205 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 10:31 AM
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Saudi tells GW to go get bent
The Saudis are having no problem keeping up with demand? This can only mean the refiners are deliberately manipulating the supply by holding oil off the market and forcing up the price.




http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080516/ap_on_re_mi_ea/bush_mideast;_ylt=AhzttZExJYJk1CGqbAwKXAqs0NUE

What they're saying to us is ... Saudi Arabia does not have customers that are making requests for oil that they are not able to satisfy,"
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 10:32 AM
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1. Commander AWOL & Saudi cronies give the Judas kissoff to Americans
Edited on Fri May-16-08 10:34 AM by SpiralHawk
Commander AWOL & his fatcat Republicon Homelander oil cronies will cry all the way to their Swiss Bank Accounts.

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lligrd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 10:36 AM
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2. Sorry Chimp, You've Served Your Purpose
Edited on Fri May-16-08 11:02 AM by lligrd
We have no further use for you. Thanks for your service, enjoy Paraguay.
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 10:36 AM
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3. The Saudis "don't see enough demand" to increase production
Just heard on AP radio news.
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Eurobabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 10:38 AM
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4. They have A-380s to buy for Sheik Jabouti
Edited on Fri May-16-08 10:38 AM by 48percenter
dontcha know, those planes are EXPENSIVE. Somebody's gotta pay for them, might as well be the oil consumers. :sarcasm:
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Jack from Charlotte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 10:45 AM
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5. Here are quotes from Moron on oil prices from the year 2000....
Recall oil prices soared to the high 20's under Clinton.....

“I think the president ought to get on the phone with the OPEC cartel and say: ‘We expect you to open your spigots’ …The president of the United States must jawbone OPEC members to lower the price. And if, in fact, there is collusion amongst big oil, he ought to intercede there as well.”
Financial Times, February 2, 2000

“I would work with our friends in OPEC to convince them to open up the spigot, to increase the supply. … Use the capital that my administration will earn, with the Kuwaitis or the Saudis, and convince them to open up the spigot.”
New York Times, June 28, 2000

“We're dependent upon crude. … I would hope the administration would convince our friends in OPEC to open the spigots.”
Los Angeles Times, June 22, 2000

“I think Americans ought to be asking, ‘Where's all the capital we earned overseas after defending some of our OPEC nation friends?’”
Associated Press, March 20, 2001

“Well, we've got good relations with a lot of members of OPEC. If the president does his job, the president will earn capital in the Middle East, and the president should have good standing with those nations. It's important for the president to explain, in clear terms, what high energy prices will not only do to our economy, but what high energy prices will do to the world economy.”
CNN, January 26, 2000

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Speciesamused Donating Member (331 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 10:53 AM
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6. They are running the show. They can do as they please.
The Saudis have enormous investments in large Americans groups, we are talking about nearly 1000 billion dollars: if tomorrow they decide to withdraw all, the American economy would collapse.
On 13 September, even though Osama Bin Laden was Saudi, although 15/19 hijackers were Saudis and Al Qaeda were funded by Saudi money, the Saudi ambassador was having dinner with President little Bush at the white house.




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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 11:17 AM
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7. The House of Saud farts in our general direction
and likens our amusing little monkey to an empty headed animal food trough wiper.

Run away! Run away! Run away! Run away! Run away! Run away! Run away!
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Subdivisions Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 11:32 AM
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8. Seems like SA is being scapegoated to cover for
Edited on Fri May-16-08 11:49 AM by Texas Explorer
refinery shenanigans.
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