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Crude, Coin, and Co-Opting

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Let’s cover three topics on this sun-isn’t-even-up morning.

Crude Scheming Fails

As I hope you know, last weekend the lovely people constituting OPEC – – which are basically a conglomeration of nations that would have NOTHING to offer the world were it not for the fact that, by sheer accident, a bunch of dinosaurs died beneath their ground hundreds of millions of years ago – – got together in their market-manipulating cartel and declared that, once again, they would SUPPRESS the natural energy supply in a shameless attempt to maximize their profits. As the arrow indicates, it worked great.

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