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Opinion: Saudi Oil Strategy: Brilliant Or Suicide?

Green Car Congress

In the last quarter of 2014, in the face of possible oversupply, Saudi Arabia abandoned its traditional role as the global oil market’s swing producer and therefore it role as unofficial guarantor of existing ($100+ per barrel) prices. In other major export markets, demand is stagnant. is no longer a growth market for oil exporters.

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Budget Drones in Ukraine Are Redefining Warfare

Cars That Think

Greico, Stimson Center Back in 1981, Israel sent modest contraptions sporting surveillance cameras in its war against Syria, to some effect. These things are all out there, on the open market. The marginal cost of a shot would be low—once you’ve amortized the expense of developing, making, and deploying such weapons systems.

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