Comments on: OPEC cuts can’t stop the slide

By: Tatterdemalian

Tatterdemalian — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:35:14 +0000

Now, now. If the Saudis hired mercenaries to protect their shipments, they might fall a few thousand short of being able to afford their air conditioned beaches.

In any case, civilian ships are not allowed to have armed mercenaries on board, because international law doesn’t allow it. The international peacekeepers might not be able to tell a cargo ship firing on a pirate ship apart from a pirate ship firing on a cargo ship, and besides they’re morally equivalent anyhow, since all corporations are raiders and slavedrivers, and only communism can save us from their scourge, and, uh… what was I talking about again?

By: Michael Lonie

Michael Lonie — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:12:57 +0000

I expect it has already surfaced somewhere in the Middle East.

By: Lorenzo

Lorenzo — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:19:10 +0000

How long until there are rumors that the Jews are engineering the drop in oil prices to starve Iran and all the other Arab oil states so they won’t have enough money to eliminate Israel. Let’s start the rumor here and enjoy the craziness.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:44:11 +0000

Oil sands and shale are a dead proposition with Obama anyway, he just chose Ken Salazar of CO as his Secretary of the Interior, a foe of such activity. Drill Baby Drill died along with any hopes of avoiding the next age of aquarius.

I am loving seeing Putin squirm, but as we aren’t willing to produce our own selves, we’re just reaping the whirlwind, and winds change.

By: Houston

Houston — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:39:09 +0000

I hate that Alaska is suffering at this, but I am loving it that the greedy mongers at OPEC are suffering since when oil was $150 a barrel (or so) they felt like production was just fine where it was.

Fitting Justice in my opinion.

On a side note, am I the only one who didn’t feel pity at the Saudis when their oil tanker was hijacked? I mean come on, BILLIONS of dollars in oil money every year and you can’t even hire MERCENARIES to protect you oil tanker (much less keep a real navy).