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Clinton: OPEC 'can no longer be a cartel'
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Posted on 05/05/2008 3:21:58 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

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From the smartest woman in the world........nary a clue..
1 posted on 05/05/2008 3:21:58 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Like what power does she believe she would have to do that shy of an all out war?


2 posted on 05/05/2008 3:24:15 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I did not read it all, but just what authority does the United States have over the laws of the OPEC members? Is the US going to pass a law to stop OPEC and then enforce it? It sounds nice, but it won’t work.


3 posted on 05/05/2008 3:24:49 PM PDT by HwyChile
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To: Sub-Driver

Megalomania knows no bounds.

Oblitherate Iran, break up the oil cartels what can’t she do?

It should be interesting to see the reaction of the cartel to this.


4 posted on 05/05/2008 3:25:14 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: A CA Guy
Like what power does she believe she would have to do that...

Like the U.N., she's send an angry letter (but not TOO angry), demanding they take action in four years. And if they don't, then by golly, she'll...

...send another letter. That'll quake 'em in their boots!

5 posted on 05/05/2008 3:27:09 PM PDT by kromike
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To: A CA Guy

“Like what power does she believe she would have to do that shy of an all out war?”

No blood for oil!


6 posted on 05/05/2008 3:27:22 PM PDT by SeanOGuano
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To: Sub-Driver

If I were an OPEC nation, I’d be shivering in my boots right about now.


7 posted on 05/05/2008 3:28:38 PM PDT by Radix (Q. What do you call a row of rabbits walking backwards? A. A receding hare line.)
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To: tet68
"It should be interesting to see the reaction of the cartel to this".

Higher prices? Seriously, OPEC is a cartel but they have no monopoly, that is unless we give it to them...it's our choice and the dim's (RINO'S) falult

8 posted on 05/05/2008 3:29:41 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("I fear we have woken a sleeping giant and filled her with a terrible resolve" - Osama 9-11-01?)
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To: Sub-Driver
It's a potent message...It's also very hard to figure out what exactly she means by the threat to break OPEC.

...which makes it an impotent message, dummy.
9 posted on 05/05/2008 3:30:09 PM PDT by RepublitarianRoger2
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To: Sub-Driver
Workers of the world, unite!



Oh, sorry, she got me a little worked up...
10 posted on 05/05/2008 3:30:26 PM PDT by kenth (I have a apolitical blues)
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To: HwyChile
It sounds nice, but it won’t work.

It doesn't matter as long as it sounds good. By the time she gets elected the stupid voters won't remember it anyway. Or, at least, that's what she hopes or she can blame it on George Bush just like she did when she promised to bring all those jobs to New York.

11 posted on 05/05/2008 3:30:47 PM PDT by kcvl
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Outside of the nuclear Yoko Ono option, I don’t know if even the pull of thousands of U.n. letters could do anything.


12 posted on 05/05/2008 3:32:54 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: SeanOGuano

No pants suits for oil!


13 posted on 05/05/2008 3:33:25 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Sub-Driver

That’s BIG talk for a little 60 year old girl from the Chicago suburbs in a crusty pants suit.


14 posted on 05/05/2008 3:35:22 PM PDT by supremedoctrine ("Time is the school in which we learn that time is the fire in which we burn")
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She’ll throw an ashtray in their general direction.


15 posted on 05/05/2008 3:35:28 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is a permanent, intergovernmental Organization, created at the Baghdad Conference on September 10–14, 1960, by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. The five Founding Members were later joined by nine other Members: Qatar (1961); Indonesia (1962); Socialist Peoples Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (1962); United Arab Emirates (1967); Algeria (1969); Nigeria (1971); Ecuador (1973) – suspended its membership from December 1992-October 2007; Angola (2007) and Gabon (1975–1994). OPEC had its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, in the first five years of its existence. This was moved to Vienna, Austria, on September 1, 1965.

OPEC's objective is to co-ordinate and unify petroleum policies among Member Countries, in order to secure fair and stable prices for petroleum producers; an efficient, economic and regular supply of petroleum to consuming nations; and a fair return on capital to those investing in the industry.

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Jeeeeeze...since when is Hillary Clinton a 'member' of OPEC?! I don't think she has a say in anything they want to do! She must think she is running for Queen of the World.

16 posted on 05/05/2008 3:38:22 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: RepublitarianRoger2

...which makes it an impotent message, dummy.

It’ truely effective to call someone a name, idiot


17 posted on 05/05/2008 3:39:31 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("I fear we have woken a sleeping giant and filled her with a terrible resolve" - Osama 9-11-01?)
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To: A CA Guy
Like what power does she believe she would have to do that shy of an all out war?

Though highly unlikely to ever come to pass, IF we appeared serious in warning the OPEC countries that we would pull all of our military protection umbrella as well as cut off all aid as well as freezing sales of arms, that might just get the Saudis' attention, who after all, are the most powerful member country.

Of course, we broke OPEC stranglehold back in the 70's and could do it again if it weren't for the EnviroNuts and their willing stooges in Congress.

18 posted on 05/05/2008 3:40:36 PM PDT by Conservative Vermont Vet ((One of ONLY 37 Conservatives in the People's Republic of Vermont. Socialists and Progressives All))
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To: Sub-Driver
She's morphing into a populist on the right. Ross Perot in a skirt (well, pantsuit), and cankles.

Of course, he came in third.

19 posted on 05/05/2008 3:41:43 PM PDT by willgolfforfood
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To: Sub-Driver

bump


20 posted on 05/05/2008 3:42:09 PM PDT by lowbridge ("I can't wait to see what he stands for." - Susan Sarandon on her support of Barack Obama)
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