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To: TigerPaw who wrote (187377)	4/29/2004 8:16:17 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576865

TP, re: Exactly, and whoever takes over would sell oil, which is why it is foolish to think we have to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to protect the oil fields. The kind of chaos that is spreading through Iraq is more disruptive than the makeup of any particular government in the region. Ultimately the oil is going to be sold at commercial rates anyway. I disagree. A "revolution" in a single country in the ME (especially SA) might seriously disrupt the balance of production/consumption of oil. The supply/demand situation wrt oil is so precarious, that a blip could become a wave very quickly. With the obvious effects to the world economy. That's just one of the variables that Bush is dealing with, when he acts on his messages from God. John