Saudi Oil: Help or Hindrance?      • Whichever oil supplier can
handle the shortfall during the Libyan 'unpleasantness', I
welcome it.      • It doesn't matter if Saudi Arabia fills in
the gap or whether or not there is or isn't a oil shortage the
price of oil is going to go up because the speculators on wall
street will cause it to go up. Speculators are the problem, not
the supply. Oil prices haven't been driven by supply and demand
ever since oil was traded as a commodity on the market.      •
Of course they blame this I mean heaven forbid they take the
blame!!      • In complete contrast to the statement that Saudi
Arabia actually has the quantity of crude to supply the market
shortfall, here's what a recent Vice President of Exploration
and Production for Aramco had to say about his country's ability
to produce more oil over the long term:      • Here's an irony
for you:        The former Soviet Union was a major exporter of
oil (much of it from Russia) and so oil was a major source of
revenue for the So