To: gregor_us who wrote (42249 ) 4/20/2005 2:08:22 PM From: SliderOnTheBlack Respond to of 206323 re: ["The USA therefore no longer control the price of oil, to the extent it once did, via the leveraging power of its demand. And S.A. no longer controls the oil price, to the extent it once did, via the leveraging power of its supply."] ...that is the epitome of the mindset that will not get to "keep" the vast majority of money made in this Oilpatch Cycle. Disconnect will be the rule, not the exception in ohhhh sooo many ways going forward. It will not be "hyperbole" to say that the vast majority of threadsters here won't even have the faintest clue as to what hit them, why, or how... All they'll be holding is an empty bag.... The Bush/Cheney Poilotic's Team controls the Oil Price... via PROMIS, via the Saudi's, and via manipulation of the paper futures markets, storage/supply numbers and very importantly via the Saudi's talking up/down the market and often actually doing the exact opposite at our direction. China IS going to collapse. Oil & Natural Resources (Currency re-peg) will be used as Economic Weapon of Mass Destruction to trigger Banking/Economic Systemic collapse. China's Systemic Banking collapse will trigger economic,social/cultural/political upheaval ... Collapsing Oil demand admist turmoil = ultimate downdraft collapse in Oil Prices. The China Story boom is thus slowed by a decade; allowing US & Global Economies to finally adopt productive Energy Policy, invest and bring to market alternative sources of energy and new technologies...allowing orderly global transition to "real" PEAK OIL rollover in coming decade...without Geopolitical "shocks" resulting in World War & Economic/Financial/Market System Collapse.