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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (96344)	8/16/2008 6:27:35 PM
From: glenn_a	Respond to of 110194

(smile) No problem Haim. I replied to you twice on the other board. My first reply was from "my" point of view. Between my first and second reply something happened, and it got me thinking if actually we weren't coming from a very similar place actually, but just on slightly differing sides of the very same sentiment. I'd be very interested to hear your thoughts on the matter. Respectfully, Glenn

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (96344)	8/17/2008 4:13:49 AM
From: westpacific	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

August 13 – BusinessWeek (Steve LeVine): “The sudden war in the Caucasus brought Georgia to heel, reasserted Russia’s claim as the dominant force in the region, and dealt a blow to U.S. prestige. But in this part of the world, diplomacy and war are about oil and gas as much as they are about hegemony and the tragic loss of human life. Victory in Georgia now gives Russia the edge in the struggle over access to the Caspian’s 35 billion barrels of oil and trillions of cubic feet of gas. The probable losers: the U.S. and those Western oil companies that have bet heavily on the Caspian as one of the few regions where they could still operate with relative freedom. At the core of the struggle is a vast network of actual and planned pipelines for shipping Caspian Sea oil to the world market from countries that were once part of the Soviet empire… But after the mauling Georgia got, ‘any chance of a new non-Russian pipeline out of Central Asia and into Europe is pretty much dead,’ says Chris Ruppel, an energy analyst at Execution… The risk of building a pipeline through countries vulnerable to the wrath of Russia is just too high.”