<In Situ retorting of oil shale The Oil Drum DrumBeat: July 5, 2006>

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Vintermann on July 3, 2006 - 4:14am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
"We should make sure the OPEC organization KNOWS that without outside auditing and transparency, we consider them niether modern nor respectable."

It would be great if SA cared about being viewed as modern and respectable :-) They do as they wish. That the cartel exists at all is evidence that consumer countries have no real options of pressure avaliable against the producers, short of invasion.

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smekhovo on July 3, 2006 - 6:20am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
The Pentagon, the US occupation regime in Iraq, and its "Iraqi" successor, are great at auditing and transparency , if they need some tips :-)
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totoneila on July 3, 2006 - 3:43pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Hello Smekhovo,

Agreed.  I am all for auditing, but not at the expense of the '3 Days of the Condor' Scenario.  I hope the TOD leaders will participate in the following:
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Announcement. President Vladimir Putin will hold an Internet conference on July 6

30/06/06: Both the Yandex and BBC sites offer users the chance not only to put new questions but also to vote for questions already proposed. During the conference, Mr Putin will answer the questions selected by Yandex and the BBC through votes on the Internet.
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Official website of the upcoming G8 Conference:

http://en.g8russia.ru/

I would like to ask Putin if he believes: that our genes are not are friends, that Overshoot is rampant, and that ASPO's Protocols and voluntary pop. controls is the best path forward.

Bob Shaw in Phx,AZ  Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?

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Nick on July 5, 2006 - 3:27pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Given that Russia's population is falling, and that their government is desperately trying to raise fertility, I don't think pop. controls are going to get much of an excited reception...
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BrianT on July 5, 2006 - 10:02am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Good one. They are really good at having billions of dollars fall off the supply truck. I agree that they will be more than eager to share everything they know about oil depletion with the sheeple. I wouldn't be concerned that they might feel that any info on this subject is a matter of "national security". Freedom isn't free.
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ThatsItImout on July 3, 2006 - 6:49am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Vintermann,

I have to agree with your central point in it's main thrust, but we should be willing to use what leverage we do have (and again, we agree, it's not nearly as much as we need to get them to open up easily).  For example, weapons and technology sales.  We could begin to make noise that our Senate and House were looking less and less favorably on selling to a nation that was so secretive with it's dear "buddies" (us)....of course, the weakness there is Saudi political PAC money which would mean most of our Senators and Congressmen would be calling the Saudi's assuring them not to worry, all was well, we still loved them!

Your right, it's an uphill climb....:-(
We should still keep the pressure up though, and still plan for emergency....since we have no visibility, we have to assume it (meaning sudden unexpected oil shocks) can happen at ANY moment, and not sham the  American people into complacency  with this delusional appearance of "statistical" knowledge and predictability.  It does not exist.

Roger Conner  known to you as ThatsItImout

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