• humanspiral
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    2 days ago

    All good points. Before 2001, oil prices were around $10/barrel. The middle east wars were designed to pump them up.

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        2 days ago

        PNAC path for 7 middle east wars, took production out of Iraq and Iran as the big ones. Big price boost. It is only recently that Iran sanctions have been ignored by Asia.

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          Opec held back production to drive the price to 100 a barrel. American fracking broke OPEC and forced prices down to 30 a barrel. It is slowly climbed with inflation. Even so, america kept the straits open for this oil to be shipped.