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Countdown to $100 oil (53) - Saudis happy with $100 oil | 23 comments (23 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

"Energy is a commodity like any other."

Sigh.

Hey, maybe we should privatize the armed forces or the nuclear deterrent?

I mean after all, if they are needed, the market will provide.

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

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Tue Nov 13th, 2007 at 08:44:39 AM EST
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Re: Insh Allah (4.00 / 3)

Careful there! They are already at it with the armed forces. (Blackwater and friends)

by someone (s0me1smail(a)gmail(d)com) on Tue Nov 13th, 2007 at 08:47:25 AM EST
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Re: Insh Allah (none / 1)

I guess they feel the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia is... "quaint".

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

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Tue Nov 13th, 2007 at 08:50:01 AM EST
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Westphalia is obsolete (4.00 / 2)

I think some people do.

We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Nov 13th, 2007 at 09:44:27 AM EST
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Re: Westphalia is obsolete (none / 0)

The only place where a peaceful if only partial transition to a post-Westphalian system has taken place is the EU, which as usual is sui generis.

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

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Tue Nov 13th, 2007 at 09:48:25 AM EST
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Re: Westphalia is obsolete (4.00 / 2)

In most places the transition to a Wesphalian system (imposed by European colonizers on different political cultures) is still imcomplete.

We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Nov 13th, 2007 at 09:59:09 AM EST
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