Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Somali pirates

I'll just throw this out there...

So these Somali pirates seem to be targeting Sauid oil tankers (among other things)... meanwhile it just so happens that oil prices are in such a freefall that even emergency output cutbacks from OPEC (of which Saudi Arabia is a member) have not been able to stop them.

...and yet we know the Saudis are historically brutal on criminal behaviour, and still these tankers take to the seas one after the other without, apparently, heavily armed security details on board with orders to shoot on sight.

Oh and by the way... when the pirates siezed that huge Saudi oil tanker, oil prices briefly surged to almost 60 bucks a barrel.

I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'.

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