from today's SLATE news summary: > Falling gas prices are bad news for Russia, which has gone from riding high > with revenues rolling in as energy prices climbed ever higher to having to > close wells for lack of income, the NY [TIMES] reports. And the country is > stuck, at least for now — Gazprom negotiated contracts with central Asian > nations at prices far above what they've fallen to today, forcing the energy > utility to sell gas at a loss. But oil may help grease the gears of Cuba's > economic integration with the U.S. — 10 to 15 billion barrels of crude oil > are [allegedly] buried underneath 5,000 feet of seawater and 20,000 feet of > rock off the island's northwestern coast. Already, familiar arguments about > how it might aid the [allegedly] rickety Castro regime are surfacing; even > such an attractive deal wouldn't slide very fast through such a Cuba-phobic > Congress.<
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