[Shermy]

Russia, Caucasus and Central Asia don't car a hoot for the arabs.

[my trusty sig]

Yep, but the Russians do care about cash money on the immediate barrelhead. So as with averaging up or down with stocks, if the price/bbl the Ruskies secure is a little less at times, it's not catastrophic, and the way they've been ramping up production, the black gold's gotta flow...