Is oil theft at the point of a gun an illustration of a viable strategy to allocate natural resources? The Neocons have gambled it all on the answer being yes. All strategy will be subordinate to and applicable to the validation of this strategy, therefore.

What does this suggest for the future, vis. the inevitable need to "allocate" (steal) the rest of the galaxy of soon-to-be-scarce stuff?

Granted, history suggests that in the end, only an intensely totalitarian state can manage an empire,first, (read Hannah Arendt, Chalmers Johnson)and that even that "management" will have an endpoint that is not too hard to discern, since most of the same problems tend to recur.

Still, ---they choose to delete this equation from their math.
A truly postmodern sort of world there.

Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.

The view that the effect of those policies is to preclude the development of a stable Israel that has a long-term future is not one available to them ...

a) pumping up crude and selling it
b) buying crude and refining it
c) buying refined fuels and selling it wholesale
d) buying wholesale and selling at the pumps
e) something else

Or rather what combinations of the above are they? This is in no way a rethorical question, I do not know the structure of the oil market.

Companies that does A profits from higher prices (as long as it is not their pumps offline), B-D can profit if they can pass on price hikes and then some.

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