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2017-05-12 -Land of the Free

OPEC to US: Please Help Us Improve the World Economy By Restricting Your Production of Oil

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Posted by DarthVader 2017-05-12 12:50|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 I have been so looking forward to the day we can tell OPEC to go pound sand. The faster these terrorist states go broke, the better.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-05-12 12:57|| 2017-05-12 12:57|| Front Page Top

#2 We could always join OPEC. Partake of the fine dining, attend the meetings, pontificate, and then tell them we do not choose to control the individual producers.

Posted by Bobby 2017-05-12 12:59|| 2017-05-12 12:59|| Front Page Top

#3 From the CNN Money article:

The cartel has in the past fought fiercely for its market share. Starting in 2014, it pumped relentlessly in order to squeeze higher cost American producers.
The strategy pushed prices well below $30 per barrel and forced many U.S. producers to scale back in 2015 and 2016.

But it had a disastrous effect on the government budgets of OPEC members, forcing them to implement austerity measures.

It also forced U.S. producers to become more efficient, and they can now withstand much lower prices than just a few years ago. Analysts at UBS estimate that U.S. producers can now make money as long as prices remain above $40 per barrel, down from $65 in early 2014.

An unexpected consequence!

Posted by Bobby 2017-05-12 13:03|| 2017-05-12 13:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Offer to raise our price 1$ a barrel for every thousand foreign mosques they close and 100,000 Paleos they resettle in their own country.

Posted by AlanC 2017-05-12 14:08|| 2017-05-12 14:08|| Front Page Top

#5 So, we make $ at spot prices above $40 and OPEC needs them to be between $50 and $60. I'd say it's the camel jockeys who are now over a barrel, so to speak.

Posted by Raj 2017-05-12 14:09|| 2017-05-12 14:09|| Front Page Top

#6 $49/barrel and not a penny more.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2017-05-12 14:44|| 2017-05-12 14:44|| Front Page Top

#7 It's so hard to lose your dignity if you have none.

Posted by AuburnTom 2017-05-12 14:54|| 2017-05-12 14:54|| Front Page Top

#8 I'll know that these people are going through real financial stress when they zero out the foreign mosque and madrasa construction budget, and stipends for foreign imams.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2017-05-12 16:04|| 2017-05-12 16:04|| Front Page Top

#9 um, um, isn't price fixing illegal?

Posted by warthogswife 2017-05-12 16:19|| 2017-05-12 16:19|| Front Page Top

#10 OPEC must have mistaken Americans for a country who gives a $hit about their whining. They gouged us for years and held us over a barrel. The royal family got rich, we got poorer, and they were complicit in 911.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-05-12 17:31|| 2017-05-12 17:31|| Front Page Top

#11 Cry me a river for those who live on man made islands and have never driven a nail into a piece of wood.

Posted by Jack Salami 2017-05-12 18:28|| 2017-05-12 18:28|| Front Page Top

#12 Dear OPEC -

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahNO.

Love,
America

PS:

Suck it.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2017-05-12 19:14|| 2017-05-12 19:14|| Front Page Top

#13 Dear OPEC:

The 1970's called. They want you to go f*&k yourself.

Love,

America

Posted by Iblis 2017-05-12 19:26|| 2017-05-12 19:26|| Front Page Top

#14 "Gentlemen! Gentlemen! There's no fighting in the war room!"
Way off topic, I just felt like typing it!

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2017-05-12 20:07|| 2017-05-12 20:07|| Front Page Top

#15 Fuck them. No really--fuck them. We should take every single measure we can to increase production and drive the price even lower. Without oil, all pretenses drop--they are left with nothing but sand, as they had no honor to begin with.

Posted by Crusader 2017-05-12 21:57|| 2017-05-12 21:57|| Front Page Top

#16 Pound sand, Mohammed.

Posted by Percival 2017-05-12 23:58|| 2017-05-12 23:58|| Front Page Top

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