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To: Ahmad Sinno who wrote (4317)	4/29/1999 11:35:00 PM
From: limtex	Respond to of 11568

AS - My position is simply this that there are laws in this country to prevent the abuses caused by monopolies who would seek to exploit their position to the detriment of the public. That is the law in the US (and the UK and the EU). It is a law guarded quite jealously by the Dept of Justice. It is that body of law which is currently arraigned against Microsoft as it was against AT&T and many others over the years. OPEC is a rather extreme monopoly that advertises precisely what it is doing and what it is doing would be against the law were it to be practised in the US. OPEC are merely a bunch of gangsters seeking to extract as much as they can out of the a raw material whose price would, were it not for there actions, be a lot less than they are artificially engineering it to be. They are acting against the interest of American consumers (as well as the consumers in other countries). Now why would you be against that postition. Why on earth would you want to support those villains? They should be in prison where they belong. Regards, L