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CEOs suggest Opec temporarily stop oil production to up prices
Emirates Business 24/7 ^
| January 14, 2009
| Shashank Shekhar
Posted on 01/14/2009 5:22:15 PM PST by enduserindy
As one of the most prominent oil cuts in history (2.2m barrels a day) and the Gaza strife fail to lift oil prices, the CEOs of companies dealing in commodities are calling for desperate measures including "Opec stopping production for a while".
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blackmail; energy; nationalsecurity; oil; opec; terrorism
Here we go again?
To: enduserindy
CEOs should be fired, jailed, or both.
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posted on
01/14/2009 5:25:15 PM PST
by
Blogger
To: Blogger
No, they should be hung, shot, and then disemboweled and left for the crows.
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posted on
01/14/2009 5:28:22 PM PST
by
CapnJack
To: CapnJack
CapnJack .... has the only real solution...
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posted on
01/14/2009 5:30:35 PM PST
by
ptsal
To: enduserindy
If it can be done now then it can be done later. I’d as soon it happen now than when we get lulled back into complacency.
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posted on
01/14/2009 5:31:03 PM PST
by
decimon
To: enduserindy
I will suggest that Salem Abdulrahman Al Wehaibi stop breathing for just as long as OPEC oil production is halted!
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posted on
01/14/2009 5:31:06 PM PST
by
WellyP
To: enduserindy
What would be really funny, is if they pull this stunt and people get so mad they use even less oil. Then we get to see opec live with an even smaller market.
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posted on
01/14/2009 5:36:37 PM PST
by
mamelukesabre
(Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
To: enduserindy
so much for supply-demand theories
the manipulation of capitalism
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posted on
01/14/2009 5:38:30 PM PST
by
elpadre
(nation)
To: enduserindy
CEOs of companies dealing in commodities, i.e. George Soros, for example.
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posted on
01/14/2009 5:39:05 PM PST
by
Brilliant
To: Brilliant
go ahead. Whatever they reduce I will try to reduce too.
To: enduserindy
NAMES PLEASE AND I GUARANTEE HE WON'T BE (IF ITS A US COMPANY) "THAT COMPANY'S" CEO NEXT WEEK!!!
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posted on
01/14/2009 5:47:07 PM PST
by
Conservative Vermont Vet
((One of ONLY 37 Conservatives in the People's Republic of Vermont. Socialists and Progressives All))
To: enduserindy
Who said the Gaza incident hasn’t affected fuel prices?
Regular gas increased 50 cent a gallon in one week in Northern Arkansas. Was 1.25 and today is was 1.75
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posted on
01/14/2009 6:03:40 PM PST
by
supermop
(Somebody has to clean up the mess he will leave)
To: Conservative Vermont Vet
Salem Abdulrahman Al Wehaibi of Qatar Petroleum for starters. Probably all others are Middle East CEOs.
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posted on
01/14/2009 6:33:57 PM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: supermop
Yep, it has been going up in CA also, was down to 1.61, now back up to 2.07...
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posted on
01/14/2009 7:46:56 PM PST
by
calex59
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