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To: elmatador who wrote (64598)	6/4/2005 3:48:53 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

El Mat, I just finished Ken Deffeyes' book, "Beyond Oil". It was quite well written. When discussing the demise of the USSR, which Deffeyes feels owes more to the Saudi Arabian crude oil price war of 1986-1990 than any other reason, he came up with this analysis of Russia's plight circa 1988: "A Polish businessman is going on a trip to Moscow and his wife to bring back notes about the shortages in Russia. He goes into a butcher shop and there are only a few scraps of salt pork, so he writes in his notebook: NO MEAT. He then goes into a greengrocer and writes: NO VEGETABLES. A shoe store: NO SHOES. After several more shops, a man stops him on the street and asks, "Are you a spy for the CIA?" The businessman explains that his wife asked him to take notes. "Don't you know that ten years ago you would have been shot for doing this?" He writes: NO BULLETS.