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| Russia, OPEC aim to stabilise oil prices |
| 2008-10-23 |
| Russia will cooperate with OPEC in maintaining stable oil prices in the global market, said Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday. $7.50 a barrel would be pretty stable... He told OPEC Secretary-General Abdalla Salem el-Badri, during their meeting here on Wednesday that interaction with the oil cartel was a "key area of Russia's energy policy aimed at maintaining stable and predictable prices." The OPEC head is on a two-day visit to Moscow to coordinate policy with Russia before an emergency session of oil-exporting countries in Vienna on Friday to discuss measures to halt plummeting prices. Mr. El-Badri said he did not ask Russia to cut oil exports, but welcomed Moscow's plan to set up oil reserves to influence global prices. The ideal oil production reserve was aired by Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin at an international energy forum in Moscow on Wednesday. The price of Russian Urals crude fell below $70 per barrel on Wednesday for a second time this month, raising fears that the 2009 budget would be pushed in the red. The Russia-OPEC talks came a day after Russia, Iran and Qatar, which account for over 60 per cent of global national gas reserves, at a meeting in Tehran, agreed to form a "big gas troika." Iranian Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari said the three nations reached "a consensus to set up a gas OPEC." Russia's gas monopoly Gazprom chief, Alexei Miller, said the new body would undertake joint projects in "exploration, refining and selling gas." The three nations also decided to transform the Gas Exporting Countries Forum, a discussion club that also includes Venezuela, Nigeria, Algeria, Egypt, Indonesia and Libya "into a permanent organisation as quickly as possible to serve the goals of stable and reliable energy supplies in the world," said Mr. Miller. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #37 3dc - that's really sad. Apparently he likes us - a lot. Too bad he burned so many bridges. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-10-23 23:22 |
| #36 AP - if you look on the access traces... AK reads the burg near every day. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2008-10-23 22:45 |
| #35 GC---the new AK |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2008-10-23 22:14 |
| #34 GC - your tiresome comments haven't changed any views here, I only hope your puppet masters don't find out they wasted their money on an inarticulate tool, or is "And by the way I can tell that you are an amateur because you writing is sloppy." standard fare now in Moscow Propaganda 101? Given the degradation of the Soviet empire, I don't have a preferred guess.... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-10-23 22:07 |
| #33 Ima mean there's a certain loss and guilt involved in abandoning a birth country, especially one that wasted it's hard won capital on an emigrant. |
| Posted by: .5MT 2008-10-23 18:06 |
| #32 He's a Russian naitve, makes perfect sense and not really a big deal. I notice a vague similarity to a poster from the Zionist Entity, a certain longing for things past, a nostaligia that croaked. |
| Posted by: .5MT 2008-10-23 17:59 |
| #31 And General Comment, why are you such a Russian suck-up? You seem to reflexively take their side regardless of the issue. Please to explain. |
| Posted by: remoteman 2008-10-23 16:43 |
| #30 I long for a Joe Mendiola vs. Muck4doo comment cage match. There is not a translator in the world that could handle it. |
| Posted by: remoteman 2008-10-23 16:41 |
| #29 Is muck4doo really working on that, .5MT, or are you just teasing? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-10-23 14:17 |
| #28 Whatever credentials you've cited I have. Hey u shud come over and hellp me and Muck4Doo work on the LOlcatbible. We're startin in on the begats shortly, which should be stimulating. |
| Posted by: .5MT 2008-10-23 12:41 |
| #27 Ah yes, the Lincoln-Douglas matchups. They don't make political debates like they used to. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-10-23 12:14 |
| #26 . Civil, Well-Reasoned Discourse. We are very proud of it. Aha. Yah, it's the words right next to the icon where Abraham Lincoln is beating someone up. |
| Posted by: Tranquil Mechanical Yeti 2008-10-23 11:56 |
| #25 GC -- The Amazon tip jar is done anonymously. 'Course, I'm assuming you do have an account with them. It's over on the right hand side -- keep scrolling, you will find it. Now, go do the right thing. |
| Posted by: Sherry 2008-10-23 11:47 |
| #24 ...would buy me a freedom of speech. This is a private board and anything we do is by the granting of the moderators and site owner. You want to buy free speech, buy your own site. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-10-23 11:43 |
| #23 I'm not arguing your credentials, General_Comment. I rather imagine you have a JD in international law, an international background by virtue of your birth and employment, and clearly a great deal more knowledge than I about military equipment. It's not clear to me whether you served in the military or are an enthusiast, but then I'm not qualified to recognize the difference. It is simply that your starting assumption appears to be that your readers are a bit simple as well as uncomplicated. Granted, Frank G's comments can sometimes lead one to the wrong conclusion, but then he will insist on wearing those Hawaiian shirts and work boots when others might wear their most conservative suit and tie. Possibly it's a California thing. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-10-23 11:36 |
| #22 With respect to a possible donation: I could make it if it could be made anonymously and would buy me a freedom of speech. |
| Posted by: General_Comment 2008-10-23 11:34 |
| #21 Civil, Well-Reason Discourse. Yes, but for some mysterious reason it does not apply to those posters who choose to disagree with my point of view. They quickly degrade into shouting obscenities. And you protect them, because they shout your side of the story. Civil, Well-Reasoned Discourse. We are very proud of it. Aha. |
| Posted by: General_Comment 2008-10-23 11:30 |
| #20 Whatever credentials you've cited I have. |
| Posted by: General_Comment 2008-10-23 11:24 |
| #19 Decompensation is the current word in the therapy field for a nervous breakdown, Sherry. General_Comment, Sherry has been an education consultant of some sort at the national level. I'm not certain what she does now, but I'm quite certain she does it with panache. While that implies a non-engineering PhD, she has ever been too modest to state her credentials. She is also a moderator here. You misjudge your audience, my dear. While there are indeed many engineers and IT types, there are also a great many PhDs and professors, lawyers and intelligence analysts and military types active in the field or retired. Even a few newspaper editors; not all journalists live in the Liberal-Progressive fringe, after all. Quite a few can tick off several boxes, which makes for interesting conversations. There are also many men and women who choose to work with their hands, adding dimensions to the discussion which sites with narrower appeal sadly miss. It is a slap in the face of elitists everywhere that the conversation need not be simplified for them. And then there are little suburban housewives like me, sheltered child of the ivory tower and corporate spouse that I am. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-10-23 11:13 |
| #18 GC -- at the top of the page, here at Fred's home, he has the words Civil, Well-Reason Discourse. Again, you have stepped over the boundaries. Now, go take a trip to Fred's tip jar -- |
| Posted by: Sherry 2008-10-23 11:08 |
| #17 Me don't need dictionary 'cuz I R smart! |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-10-23 11:00 |
| #16 I see there is a fan (hate) club forming. At least I am glad that you are using a dictionary. My work bore some fruit. |
| Posted by: General_Comment 2008-10-23 10:45 |
| #15 Thanks all about our friend General Comment -- obviously, he was beginning to annoy me! Dr. Steve, I had to look up this word: de·com·pen·sa·tion (dkm-pn-sshn) n. 1. Medicine Failure of the heart to maintain adequate blood circulation, marked by labored breathing, engorged blood vessels, and edema. 2. Psychology The inability to maintain defense mechanisms in response to stress, resulting in personality disturbance or psychological imbalance I think that was a compliment!!! Thanks |
| Posted by: Sherry 2008-10-23 10:17 |
| #14 Sherry, you certainly hit a few nerves there. LOL! |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2008-10-23 09:57 |
| #13 As far as the oil article goes, I would think that even a lower stable price would be better than the wildly fluctuating b.s. we've seen lately. If you could count on $60 bbl. oil all year you could at least tailor your spending. Russia is facing budgetary insolvency over this last bear down. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-10-23 09:40 |
| #12 Is there some annoying cyber-marketing company you can call that puts out a bunch of General_Comment type guys to harass people? If there is it would surely be in Russia. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-10-23 09:37 |
| #11 Sinktrap! What a lovely day this is! Only his banishment could make it finer. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2008-10-23 09:12 |
| #10 I wonder how much Putin is paying GC to sing Russia's praises here... Either way, sounds like the only real money maker for Russia just went away and all their projects are no longer funded. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-10-23 08:56 |
| #9 Nice going, Sherry, not only did you get him to decompensate, you cleaned up afterwards! :-) |
| Posted by: Steve White 2008-10-23 08:12 |
| #8 will someone just poop list the general comment asshat? how many threads does he have to hijack/ruin before he is an official menace instead of just the obvious nuisance he is now? just askin |
| Posted by: Abu do you love 2008-10-23 02:09 |
| #7 And if you are in the mood of removing my posts why don't you remove yours as well so that we are even? |
| Posted by: General_Comment 2008-10-23 00:57 |
| #6 Sherry, have not seen any of your posts . . . . Hmmm. Lack of opinion or lack of writing ability? Or too busy programming away at some cubicle the writing analysis programmes for kiddies? |
| Posted by: General_Comment 2008-10-23 00:56 |
| #5 One thing you are right about, I am writing for your level. And those programms - just for the heck of it, take any Supreme Court opinion and run thru it, see what you get. |
| Posted by: General_Comment 2008-10-23 00:50 |
| #4 Sherry, you are wrong with your typical engineering approach, this means nothing. And by the way I can tell that you are an amateur because you writing is sloppy. |
| Posted by: General_Comment 2008-10-23 00:47 |
| #3 GC -- a little of an American lesson here -- I took all your comments, not including those with name calling, but the ones with your discussion points and ran them through a readability formula. There are several of those, some we use for kids' reading levels, and some we use for adults' writings. I used the most accurately accepted one for adults' writing. Here your scores: Grade level: 6.1 (that's sixth grade. Newspapers are written to a fifth grade level, so you are at least as good as our esteemed journalists.) Passive voice: 4% (that's actually quiet good, but this forum lends itself to active voice writing) Sentence complexity: 18 (100 = very complex) Vocabulary complexity: 11 (100 = very complex) But, of course, you were writing for your audience? Well, maybe not. Most of this audience is capable of at least 12th grade readability. You might want to up your writing standards when stating your arguments, backed up with facts, of course. That helps in getting along with the folks here. Oh, and did you hit Fred's tip jar yet? |
| Posted by: Sherry 2008-10-23 00:38 |
| #2 GC - 3 days of the condor here... I want all the oil... Now! where Redford was anti - I lean very pro |
| Posted by: 3dc 2008-10-23 00:22 |
| #1 < CG -- you're giving yourself away -- the above comment by me, is the first I've ever made to you... so don't be telling me, "I'm a bit tired of you....." It might have been Barb, but you sound the same. |
| Posted by: General_Comment 2008-10-23 00:09 |