In The Mail – small dead animals

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“Thou hast been weighed in the balance and found wanting.” That is the judgment of scholar J.B. Kelly on the rise of revolutionary Arab nationalism and the long Western retreat from responsibility in the Middle East since the 1950s. But what has been found wanting–the failed revolutionary regimes or a West surfing home on the wave of the future? Or both about equally? With a matchless dry wit Kelly describes in this collection the long tragi-comedy of how ruthless socialist tyrants and deluded Western diplomats between them kept the Arab world in a state of progressive backwardness and eventually midwifed Islamist terrorism. If we had listened then, we might not have to laugh through gritted teeth now.
— John O’Sullivan

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Bullcrap! The Arabs and the rest are responsible for their own intransigence. Period.

…”there were ‘substantial grounds for believing that the motive behind the excessive prices now being charged for Middle-Eastern oil is political and religious rather than economic, and is designed to redress the balance between the Islamic countries of the Middle East and Western Europe, which has been tilted in favour of the latter for two centuries or more.’ It was summed up by the exclamation from one Arab oil state official in December 1973: “It is our revenge for Poitiers!” (a reference to Charles Martel’s defeat of the Arab armies in France in 732).”
I’m sure it will be a delightful read. Gee, hold a grudge much? Its only been ~1282 years since Poitiers…certainly there is no one alive from 732 AD.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”

Never heard of JB Kelly, but he had a realistic view of Islam ( he quotes an Arab oil official as stating the oil price rise in 1973 as ” our revenge for Poitiers “. That certainly fits with the bloodthirsty and homicidal tendencies of adherents to Islam in the present day.
Just reminds the West never to give up or squander its overwhelming military superiority vis a vis the Muslim world, including Iran.

“It is our revenge for Poitiers!” (a reference to Charles Martel’s defeat of the Arab armies in France in 732). No doubt this would also include the Muslim defeat at Vienna in 1683.
I suspect that this revenge mentality is also at play in the possible funding of western anti-oil activists who masquerade as environmentalists.

Canadian companies are paid less than world oil price for crude coming from Canada, so how is what Arabs charge Europe relevant to our situation.
The retailers use ‘world oil price’ to set the price at the pumps, it has very little relevance to what it actually costs the refineries for the feedstock, especially the refineries in western Canada.

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For the same reason Bakken crude sells at a discount, despite being sweet crude – there is a bottleneck in transport. Railcar shipment is more costly than via pipeline. ND has permitted a refinery so that their producers don’t have to take such a hit on price. This all changes if Keystone is approved.

“I suspect that this revenge mentality is also at play in the possible funding of western anti-oil activists who masquerade as environmentalists.”
I suspect “revenge mentality” is at play in just about every gripe and grievance in history.

Yes, that’s obvious.
The fact remains that retailers don’t use actual feedstock cost to determine what to gouge us at the pumps, it’s based on fictional world oil price.

Nah it’s based on neither domestic nor world price. It’s based on price fixing. Whatever the market will bear.
If the stated price of crude goes down the price at the pumps doesn’t because of the high priced feed stock inventory, goes the tale….
Although a rise in the stated price of crude rises…the price at the pump goes up, despite being sourced from a lower priced inventory.
Gasoline is a by-product of refining heating oil…..can’t make one without t’other.
Cooler weather shouldn’t raise the price of heating oil because of an summer long inventory of heating oil. Reduced demand for gas due to the end of the holiday/touring season and the demand for heating oil should lower the price of gasoline….but it don’t.

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