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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1575)	1/3/2003 6:18:52 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

We are essentially in agreement - low oil prices benefit consumer countries, not the producers. So it will not benefit Iraq. The US can of course FORCE Iraq to produce more, hence breaking OPEC. That is forcing a country to do something that is not in its interests. Hence my reference to "imperialism". Nice, very nice. Now let's see... Do you think the oil corporations who financed the elections of the oil people in the administraton (incl. Bush) elected will want low oil prices? What do you think? (Sure, oil prices will ease from the current peaks as the war fears subside, but I bet there will be no significant increase in production that will fundamentally lower the oil price. It is not in the interests of US oil corporations.)