Cavallo
OPEC is nothing more then a bunch of camel jockey's who if they didn't have oil on their property, would still be carrying spices to the orient.
the only people that benifit from the value of having oil are the "princes" and the "shieks" and most of the older guys will remember that shieks were a brand name for condums when they were called rubbers.
when britan tuned the desert into little fiefdoms and appointed people kings or whatever they called them at the time they should have kept the mineral rights.
there is some arab honcho with so much money he has vcr's taping every station he can get with his satelite
dish, 24 hours a day seven days a week. he has a staff that files the tapes in some kind of order. why? because he can afford to.
these are the real terrorists. the people they "rule" get squat from the countries riches and are taught to hate us instead of the bastards that rule them and keep them in poverty.
as i recall usa companies drilled the wells and were "nationalized" by the individual gangsters. as much as i hate major companies that nothing more then a bottom line mentality, which is used to provide the ceo's extra ordinary salaries and bonuses, instead of being distributed to the stock holders who actually own the companies, we as a country should not have allowed the theft of equipment and oil by the "rulers" of the arab nations.
if we can't even insist that iraq pay it's own way for their rebuilding with the profits from oil money that used to go to sadam and now goes into swiss banks for some future dictator, more then likely some religious leader, to abscond with, we, the usa, are oil whipped.
all this crap results in gas costing us $2.50 a gallon and rising, and that pisses me off.