[rlmorel]

Interesting. Russia shows its true colors...Reagan had it right when he said “Trust but Verify...”

[mimaw]

Doesn’t that POS Schroeder work for Russian oil company?

[wideawake]

No, no, no.

Just ask the pseudo-Marxist goldbuggering contingent of economic whackos at FR - oil prices are up because evil Wall Street speculators are all colluding together to drive up the price of oil.

Actual hard facts like refinery capacity and proven reserves and supply and delivery of crude are just so boring - rather than bother our heads with following the actual oil flows or monitoring current events (tedious!) let's just build a bizarre and completely unsupportable conspiracy theory out of thin air.

And if anyone disagrees with us and cites boring facts, we can just tell them they are neocon oneworlders who belong on DU.

[topher]

Russia has tried very creative things to help with increasing their production capacity.

At one time, because the field had very heavy oil, they used a NUCLEAR BOMB to see if the field would flow better.

For some reason setting off a nuclear bomb underground did not help the flow/production of oil in this field...

[Just mythoughts]

Hmmmm, well wonder what is really going on in Iraq, is that oil flowing more than has been reported? Maybe the NEW Germany might get in on some oil contracts?

[Flavius]

maybe they are still mad about that II thing

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Blackmail. A KGB trademark.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Ping.