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Well, my fellow Americans, and freedom lovers around the world, a shoe has dropped, a warning shot has been fired, a line has been drawn in the sands of the vast Sahara for all to see:
With oil reaching new highs every day, with the emerging economies of China and India slurping up more oil every day, with the green meanies stifling efforts to develop vast US oil reserves off-shore, and with markets spooked by cutbacks in projected supplies by Saudi Arabia, Libya has come to the conclusion that the oil markets are, get this, OVER supplied!!!!
Yes, they have surveyed the landscape, analyzed the world oil markets, checked dipsticks everywhere and come to the ineluctable conclusion that there is TOO MUCH OIL on the market.
Bless you, Libya!
In an "unrelated" story, Libya is rather upset that Congress has cleared the way for litigation to proceed in US courts regarding the wanton murder of certain American citizens aboard a certain airline.
In another "unrelated" story, one of OPEC's ministers opined that oil could go to $200, even $500 a barrel if there were an attack on Iran. Of course, this would be the natural consequence of the political turmoil that would necessarily ensure, and not, I repeat NOT the result of any direct retaliation against the United States.
And what, I wonder, might happen if we actually captured Bin Laden?
A fly on the wall of a recent OPEC meeting might have heard:
"Praise Allah, the provider of all provider, the general of all generals, for providing us with the means to castrate and cut out of the heart of the Great Satan! With oil, we will bring the infidels to their knees!"
Offshore drilling, anyone?
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