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To: Brumar89 who wrote (215913)	2/2/2007 6:16:25 AM
From: Noel de Leon	Read Replies (1) of 281500

"We did boycott Japan. But we weren't a major supplier of oil to Japan and our boycott didn't cut them off from anyone else. Japan was already at war with every other Pacific/east Asian country (we were a Pacific country b/o of Hawaii and Philippines) and was looking for an excuse to go to war with us too. We were simply in the way of their expanding empire." Her is a more complicated picture. "In 1940, Japan occupied French Indochina (Vietnam) upon agreement with the French Vichy government, and joined the Axis powers Germany and Italy. These actions intensified Japan's conflict with the United States and Great Britain which reacted with an oil boycott. The resulting oil shortage and failures to solve the conflict diplomatically made Japan decide to capture the oil rich Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) and to start a war with the US and Great Britain." japan-guide.com "It is in selling countries interest that the int'l market remains free." No, it is in the selling countries interest that the int'l market remains controlled in order to get the maximum profit out of their resource. That's why the world has OPEC. "OPEC’s mission is to coordinate & unify the petroleum policies of Member Countries & ensure the stabilization of oil prices in order to secure an efficient, economic & regular supply of petroleum to consumers, a steady income to producers & a fair return on capital to those investing in the petroleum industry." opec.org Nothing about free markets in OPEC's mission.

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