Let them bleed in the dirt.
Good thing those who hate us are in even more trouble.
I guess that’s our fault. Sucks to be them.
Oh - and how is “Death To America” working out now for the mullahs?
This is the sort of thing that has the potential to start conflict.
I can see mideast oil demise from my kitchen window. Frac baby frac. It takes oil money to support terrorism.
Why is it that ONLY the O&G industry sees the damage to the Russian-Soviets that can be done in lower oil prices?
Are these corporations great Americans, or what?
(You have FR mail)
“Interesting that he thinks it is against Muslims,”
I went to college with about 30 Iranians, who I got to know very well. They walk around looking like us (to a large degree). Many spoke good English. They liked the same foods, smoked the same cigarettes, drank the same liquor. (Yes, all of that was against their religion, I know.) But when you listened to them talk and thought about the thinking that led to the words they spoke, you realized they lived in a bizarre world with no discernible logic to it. The CIA controlled the KGB and the Shah’s secret police, as well as the New York Times and everything else imaginable. Then, their “logic” could, in the same sentence, twist back on itself so that the beginning and end of the same sentence were mutually exclusive. It was as if they’d concentrated all the crazy street people into their heads. One of them was pathologically afraid of the word “divorce.” Since he would be divorced if he said the word three times, he didn’t know if they had to be said in a row or if the effect was accumulative. When I asked what it would matter if it was not his intention to divorce, he winced and asked me not to say the word as when I did he said it in his mind. He said that Allah would know he’d said it to himself. That was just a mild example that springs to mind. The rest were so convoluted I couldn’t remember their logic as it was sensless. So, an Iranian can call the Saudi’s (sworn enemies of Iran, BTW) “treacherous.” But we have no idea what he thinks that word means.
Think how interesting things will get if the mullahs don’t have the money to pay the thugs that enforce the theocracy. Also without subsidies the price of food will rise. That will create difficult problems for the mullahs.
Hey Iran squeal like a pig for me....
But alas...
These Marxist/Muslim cesspools have always depended on the US dollar to keep them going. With the dollar getting stronger, oil prices fall, and now they howl at us about a conspiracy to ruin them.
It would be very clever of TX oil men to have defeated our enemies, but it’s more likely that they defeated themselves.
Sunni-Shia-bloodletting-cull-the-Muslim-herd-by-a-few-hundred-million ping...
The pain for OPEC oil producers is set to get worse.
http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/10/news/economy/opec-cuts-demand-forecast/index.html?iid=HP_LN
December 10, 2014
... on Wednesday, OPEC cut its forecast for 2015 world demand growth by 6%. It blamed slowing consumption in western Europe, Asia and Latin America....
What makes matters worse for countries such as Iran and Venezuela is that OPEC expects its members will continue losing market share to the U.S.
It expects demand for OPEC crude oil to fall by 400,000 barrels per day in 2015.
“This downward revision reflects the upward adjustment of non-OPEC supply as well as the downward revision in global demand,” it said....
Just how much more pain OPEC can take is unclear. Iran warned Tuesday that prices could fall to $40 a barrel if the cartel wasn’t more disciplined.
“Any break in OPEC solidarity or price war will lead to an enormous price dive shock,” Mohammad Sadegh Memarian, head of petroleum market analysis at the Oil Ministry...
I quote a comment from http://eaworldview.com/2014/12/iran-analysis-tehran-fail-secret-meeting-saudis-oil-price/:
“I cannot see where Saudi Arabia loses on any front from lowering oil prices.
With its considerable foreign reserves and sovereign wealth fund, it can withstand lower oil prices for years to come.
Lower oil prices harm Iran and Russia, two states that threaten Saudi interests in the region.
Lower oil prices completely undermine US shale, thus preserving Saudi Arabia’s hold on global oil production and prices.
Lower oil prices boost global economic growth, helping Europe in particular – a major market for Saudi exports and investments.
It is Saudi Arabia’s trump card. The only possible downside is that it is no longer left with any strategic depth.”
The Iranians people never see the money anyhow... that’s for their corrupt ‘leaders’...