OPEC To Cut Oil -- Or So They Say

Since many of these oil producing nations have the GDP of somewhere around the level of Cuba, they don't have many other ways to generate currency.

Who's the leader of this increase in prices? Our friends the Saud family, of course.

It seems one part of the family is not talking to the other. With tanks going into the mid-east every day it 's a bad time to give the western democracies further incentive to go into Iraq.

Combining the removal of an evil despot with freeing the Iraqi people with removal of sanctions in Iraq and cheaper oil is a recipe for intervention. Clearly the Saud family is only giving lip service to hesitating about Iraq to keep themselves from being bombed ... and I'm sure Hussein wishes they had picked a different time to make this announcement.

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