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What is this? I can't understand it.

Oil is traded on a global market, yes? How would rerouting oil from Europe to China change prices?

If we were talking about gas (like in Gazprom) I would understand what this is all about, but oil?

What do they mean?

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Tue Apr 25th, 2006 at 07:37:05 AM EST
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It's the Financial Times, purveyors of fine bullshit. Unless the oil in question is supplied under a long-term contract under current market prices (but at the market prices prevailing just a couple of years ago), it's just fear, uncertainty and doubt.

Maybe we should rename the FT the FudT.

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Apr 25th, 2006 at 07:46:09 AM EST
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Which is why their headline is horrible.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Apr 25th, 2006 at 08:12:15 AM EST
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Are they simply doing "oil = petrol(UK) = gas(US) = (nat)gas" in their head?

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Apr 25th, 2006 at 08:16:10 AM EST
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