Quoting from an article in CNN entitled, OPEC cartel to reap record $1 trillion:
"The Opec oil cartel, led by Saudi Arabia, will pocket a record of more
than US$1tn in net oil revenues in 2012 as the annual average price for
Brent, the benchmark, heads to an all-time high in spite of weak
economic growth.
"The windfall will provide fresh capital to some of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds.
United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, the most influential
members of the cartel, are home to three of the world's 10 largest SWFs
by assets under management, according to estimates by the SWF
Institute."
The average price per barrel of oil in 2012
was $111.5, an all time record. Saudi Arabia's oil minister says they
planned to keep oil prices above a hundred dollars a barrel in 2012.
They've achieved their goal, much to the detriment of the rest of the
world's economy.
The price of oil is rising steeply,
driven by OPEC's desire to bleed the world. Only ten years ago, OPEC
made $200 billion. In 2012, they made over a trillion dollars. This
greatly helped the Save the King Foundation and the spread of Wahhabism worldwide,
but caused economic damage to the rest of the world. The last paragraph
of the article makes it clear that our gasoline prices are only going
to go up:
"The International Monetary Fund estimates
that Riyadh and Abu Dhabi both need oil prices at about $80 a barrel to
balance their budgets. Only a decade ago they were able to balance their
budgets with oil prices averaging $25." Gal Luft says they will need at least $110 a barrel by 2015.
If we had fuel competition in America, we wouldn't have to worry about this.
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