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Oil November 2000: $28 A Barrel. Oil March 2008: $106 A Barrel. Replacing The Bush-Oil Industry Plutocracy: Priceless!
In the highly disputed November 2000 election, the oil industry interests, which were the major supporters of buying the Bush Administration into power and creating an oil industry-run plutocratic form of government in the U.S., were able to get their way on a wide range of tax and environmental issues dealing with the oil industry as well as allowed to develop the foreign policy that created the drive to war in Iraq. Yet oil prices did not fall as result of all of this. Oil actually increased from $28 a barrel in November 2000 to topping $106 a barrel at one point in Friday's commodity trading
Posted on March 8, 2008 9:30 AM
Current Critical Megatrends
Wizbang Blue's Paul Hooson takes a look in his crystal ball at the megatrends that may be triggered by the recent spike in oil prices, the economic downturn in the U.S., China's accelerating inflation rate, the war in Iraq and the prospect of war in Iran, Kosovo's independence and Fidel Castro's resignation.
Posted on February 20, 2008 9:51 AM
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