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US-Saudi Arabia: Winter Is Coming
Energy Intelligence ^ | December 2014 | Bill Murray

Posted on 12/23/2014 4:53:44 AM PST by thackney

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1 posted on 12/23/2014 4:53:44 AM PST by thackney
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To: thackney

The article drifted into bullsh!t very early on.
Recovery of shale oil, which is vastly more plentiful than free oil has been anticipated since the thirties.

It was a dinner table topic from time to time in my home back in the sixties.

A lot of people knew it would come.

Perhaps not too many leftist journalists.


2 posted on 12/23/2014 5:00:48 AM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: thackney; kiryandil; Tax-chick; SevenofNine; King Moonracer; lulu16
Can't Use the Meme Now, Winter is already Here


3 posted on 12/23/2014 5:01:46 AM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: KC_Lion

LOL!


4 posted on 12/23/2014 5:05:17 AM PST by Tax-chick (Remember Malmedy!)
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To: thackney
Obama's speeches on energy have not aged well,
5 posted on 12/23/2014 5:06:45 AM PST by MulberryDraw (Repeal it.)
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To: thackney

Just wait until the Saudis put Jeb in place - all will be well. :)


6 posted on 12/23/2014 5:08:26 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves (Heteropatriarchal Capitalist)
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To: thackney

When Saudi Arabia runs out of oil their main source of energy will be camel dung.


7 posted on 12/23/2014 5:08:49 AM PST by AU72
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To: AU72
When Saudi Arabia runs out of oil their main source of energy will once again be camel dung.
8 posted on 12/23/2014 5:10:40 AM PST by Tax-chick (Remember Malmedy!)
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To: AU72

They have Natural Gas as well. They have already begun hydraulic fracturing of some of the tighter plays, like we have with our shale.


9 posted on 12/23/2014 5:21:51 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
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To: thackney
Although that is purely conjecture at this point, it does fit with popular US attitudes toward Saudi Arabia and the general desire of Americans for distance from the Mideast.

The whole article is conjecture. It basically seems to be advocating Saudi princes over American consumers.

We all must remember, since the OPEC oil embargo of 1973 the Saudis have been playing us like a fiddle. The river of money flowing into their coffers has since been used to fund Islamic terrorism around the world.

If we allow it, the market will sort out a good portion of this mess. But if we continue to interfere, Saudi led OPEC dominance of world oil will continue.

10 posted on 12/23/2014 5:29:53 AM PST by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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If we allow it, the market will sort out a good portion of this mess.

BTTT

11 posted on 12/23/2014 5:35:01 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
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The Persians and Mesopotamians had great empires built on consistently fertile land. The Levant areas were marginally self-sufficient. Arabia has always been an armpit.

Turkey, never having relied on oil, still maintains economic viability without it, and to a lesser degree, so does Egypt, but neither will ever enter the inner economic ring.

Without oil, Iran is going to backslide enormously, and can no longer support anything close to its present standard of living.

Arabia without oil, or even without sufficient oil revenue, will implode. When the money dwindles, the foreign workers will go home. Saudi Arabia will be like a large resort, where the guests wake up without electricity, without hotel staff, and without any means of leaving.

12 posted on 12/23/2014 5:35:35 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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I doubt we will see become unimportant in our lifetimes.


13 posted on 12/23/2014 5:39:24 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
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To: SampleMan

One Hundred years ago, they were guardsmen, wandering in the desert. One Hundred years from now, they will again be guardsmen, wandering in the desert. All of their wealth comes through the talents of others.


14 posted on 12/23/2014 5:40:43 AM PST by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Yep. And they are currently directing their media hawkers at FOX News Channel to keep pushing Jeb.


15 posted on 12/23/2014 6:02:53 AM PST by Bigg Red (Congress, do your duty and repo his pen and his phone.)
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To: DakotaGator

+1


16 posted on 12/23/2014 6:04:01 AM PST by Bigg Red (Congress, do your duty and repo his pen and his phone.)
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To: thackney

This country has suffered enough from the misery of its involvement in the Middle East since I was a kid.Now that I’m approaching sixty I say the hell with the Middle East.

Let the Saudi’s defend themselves.Afterall friends don’t murder there friends like the Saudi’s have.Remember 9-11.

The only country we should continue to assist is Isreal.If only because it’s the only free Democratic count in tha hell hole of a region.


17 posted on 12/23/2014 6:32:15 AM PST by puppypusher ( The World is going to the dogs.)
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Obama has been supported and financed as well as educated by the Saudis. He will not wee-wee on their domination. Did you see him bow to that fat, bearded killer?


18 posted on 12/23/2014 6:37:03 AM PST by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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“Obama has been supported and financed as well as educated by the Saudis. He will not wee-wee on their domination. Did you see him bow to that fat, bearded killer?”

Oh Yea.But then again Obama bows to every two bit thug he finds.


19 posted on 12/23/2014 6:44:28 AM PST by puppypusher ( The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: KC_Lion

HA HA

So true LOL!


20 posted on 12/23/2014 8:31:55 AM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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