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$67 Oil Has All The Majors Converging in Argentina

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Argentina offers one of the few places on earth where oil companies are not suffering from the full force of the collapse in prices. Argentina regulates oil prices, a policy originally intended to insulate the public from the whims of the market, protecting people from triple-digit crude prices.

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Opinion: Saudis Could Face An Open Revolt At Next OPEC Meeting

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OPEC next gathers December 4 in Vienna, just over a year since Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi announced at the previous OPEC winter meeting the Saudi decision to let the oil market determine oil prices rather than to continue Saudi Arabia's role of guarantor of $100+/bbl oil. percent in 2016. MMbbls/day.

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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

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REDDIT STUMBLE UPON MYSPACE MIXX IT Paste this link into your favorite RSS desktop reader See all CNNMoney.com RSS FEEDS ( close ) By Andy Grove April 17, 2009: 9:30 AM ET The great electric car race High oil prices, green regs, and better batteries are behind the mad dash to create the ultimate electric automobile. rivals in the dust.

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Gas War: U.S. Oil Companies Accused of Price Fixing With OPEC, Increasing Inflation

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shale oil firms purposefully colluded with the government of Saudi Arabia to fix oil prices between 2021 and 2023. The concern was that the companies were effectively creating a monopoly in what’s already a business sector composed largely of massive multi-national corporations. Maybe Saudi and Russia will follow.

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Opinion: Blaming Rising Fuel Prices on High Temps is Dumb

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In July, for example, Saudi Arabia starting reducing how much oil it sends to the global economy by 1 million barrels each day. Russia is also exporting less, he said. & Oil prices spiked dramatically following the 2020 presidential election. It has certainly thrown a lot of government money toward EVs.

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