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To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (25463)	11/19/2007 5:38:11 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217564

i note for the copy book that russian/central asian oil going to china is, for some intermediaries, at 20+% below world benchmarks, far in excess of discount justified by shipping and insurance, as state-corp-to-state-corp stuff generates 'handling' frictional loss from one hot hand to another, so that the machinery keeps turning and generates luxury homes in london and hongkong, the empire that once was, and the colony that was once upon a time the machinery is humming, pounding on all 16 cylinders, smooth as an italian super car the cost of oil is, for the short term, irrelevant to the price of oil, as once discovered and accessed, the marginal cost is not so much relative to free market demand price the same frictional heat generation had also always been happening across the state-corp-to-state-corp trades of commodities, is my suspicion, from aluminum to zinc