Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Energy Markets

These aren't my words, but are from an old article I clipped. Safer to keep it here, and rarely were truer words spoken.

"Fundamentally, the energy market isn't really a market -- it is rigged by nationally run oil monopolies that dictate the supply and prices of crude oil, individually within their own borders and globally through the OPEC cartel. In that system, private firms such as Exxon Mobil and Chevron are mere price-takers. But they are also willing free-riders who benefit handsomely from the price-fixing of others.

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