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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: energyplay who wrote (54996)	9/14/2009 3:03:00 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 218160

At which stage oil is discovered, decides about how its wealth is used. Oil was discovered in the US at a time the industry and technology was ready to use it. By the way Ford switched from ethanol as oil became viable alternative and oil has powered America’s century. Europe needed oil and used colonies and gun boating to secure it. Deception help too. Luckily for last century economic powers, oil was found on tribal areas where warlords got the weapons from the potential customers to subjugate their local rivals and in return guaranteed the oil supply to their protectors. Any country who tried to walk with its own feet was thwarted. Coup d’etat supported from abroad made sure the renitent strong man was demonized, embargoed and ousted. The first time oil was found outside the tribal land cum strong man, was in the North Sea. England used it to avoid becoming a Third World country (at least for a while). Norway is experimenting in extending the bonanza by keeping some money for the coming raining years. For the first time in history there is a country that is not tribal. Is not going down the drain, (au contraire: is skyrocketing out of Third World status). Has an economy compared to the US in late 19th Century. Oil appears in Brazil as it enters the demographic window when there is guaranteed economic growth bonus. Moreover, it has had the lessons of 100 years of history to learn how to do the things right. nationalistic policies is to show it wants nothing to do with the cronies whose modus operandi is Elroy’s straw to suck their dry. And for good measure is acquiring nuclear submarine capability, has skilled diplomats, building a sphere of cooperation in the area, some modern jet fighters for good measure too. All pieces neatly put together. It knows how the game was played before. There is a danget that works, but that being Brazil...