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Greasy Greed And Nukes

You thought oil prices at $50 per barrel were bad? Think again, folks. It’s now over $60 per barrel and the greed continues ....

Oil prices have continued to climb on Monday, surging to a record on concerns that demand will outstrip supply.

US sweet light crude was trading 48 cents higher at $60.32, after earlier hitting $60.64. Brent, the other main contract rose 58 cents to $58.94.

Analysts said that prices are likely to sit close to the $60 mark for some time as demand shows little sign of abating.

“The psychology of the market is that once US$60 is breached, then there is tendency to test how much higher it can go, or how long $60 can be sustained,” said Victor Shum of Purvin & Gertz.

Test higher limits? Yep, sure. Let’s see just how much more we can gouge these suckers. China is swallowing up global oil in its recent industrialization efforts, creating a market that is demand-oriented. The suppliers are more than glad to raise prices to meet this new demand, not that it’s costing them one cent more to drill and pump the oil. In addition, China is attempting to buy US oil companies like UnoCal to feed its energy hunger. Where is all this going? It’s about to get much worse ....

Driving the market is the worry that there is very little surplus supply and that any disruption would produce a sudden and dramatic spike in prices.

Over the weekend, Iran, the second-biggest member of oil production group Opec, voted in hardline Tehran mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as President.

Mr Ahmadinejad has said his government will continue the country’s nuclear programme and appeared to rule out improving ties with Washington, saying Iran did not really need the US.

Well, now you have the whole picture. Unrest in the Mideast rises with Iran electing a nuke-monger in Kim Jong Il’s image. Speaking of which, Iran bought most of its nuclear and missile technology from North Korea. Now, we have two soon-to-be nuclear powers in North Korea and Iran. What is the US doing about it? Well, for one thing we’re going to start producing plutonium again for the first time since the Cold War. The game of international poker continues to escalate. I see your four A-Bombs and raise you 3,000 H-Bombs. Whaddya got ....?


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 06/27/2005 at 08:39 AM   
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