[Fred25]

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[JDGreen123]

Great link! This combined with post #19 in this thread-Oil from Russia- I think foretells the future. The oil barons of the 21st century will be the Russians and former Soviet Asian countries. The Caspian Sea is the hot oil area right now. UNOCAL supposedly wants to build a pipeline from the Caspian to the Indian Ocean by way of----you guessed it, Afghanistan.

This undoubtedly will lead to some future war in which the Chinese will make a push for the Caspian reserves. The United States, Russia, and Western Europe will then have to defend those areas. The beat goes on.

I don't have much hope for any oil replacement anytime soon. The big oil corporations, the Wall Street gang, the automobile manufacturers, and the environmentalists all stand to lose if we change the status quo.