[thackney]

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[Obadiah]

Report: Most Iraq oil production unaffected by turmoil

Yeah, that's the reality, as it most often is. And then there is the price of crude that eagerly looks for emotional reasons to swing the price way beyond rationality. But, yeah, profits are made.

[elpadre]

“..oil production has been unaffected by militant violence..”

if the oil companies follow their past practice, they will run the prices up under any pretext. They claim prices are a result of supply/demand, but that simply is not true.