David Brin wrote:
>
>> I think it doesn't: the saudis really don't want the
>> oil prices to become too high, because high oil
>> prices
>> makes it economically viable _other_ sources
>
> Alberto... like worrying about John Keery's preferece
> for conservation over drilling, this is extrapolating
> too far. 
>
Is it? :-)

> The fact is thet RIGHT NOW our money is
> pouring into the Riyadh princes' Swiss bank accounts
> at rates that would make a horde of insatiable
> vampires howl in envy.  The secret energy meetings of
> Cheney in 2001 are now bearing fruit.
>
According to statistics provided by Dan Minete, this money
is irrelevant to the USA economy - which I can interpret two
ways:

(a) the price of oil is irrelevant

-or-

(b) the numbers of the GDP do not have any similarity with
reality, and should be divided by 100 or 1000 to be more
realistic.

Alberto Monteiro

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