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...heated election year in which neither side wants to hand the other a legislative victory, this all amounts to mere posturing. And some energy analysts say that's a good thing. Prices have already started to drop a bit in recent weeks, and odds are, in the fall they will plunge further as refiners ease away from the expensive cocktails they are forced to use to prevent gas from evaporating in the summer, consumption drops and speculators begin to anticipate a flat U.S. economy over the next few quarters, said Greg Valliere, chief political strategist at Stanford Washington Research Group...
...Democrats insist on blocking oil-drilling when we need the price of oil to drop? Stan Edwards, ROTAN, TEXAS...
...happens, Gates' financial history has followed the Friedman philosophy more than his own. Gates founded Microsoft and ran it with legendary single-mindedness for three decades. There was not a lot of energy devoted to lifting up the world's poor. Now, having squeezed every drop out of capitalism, he is going to devote almost all his time and fortune to improving the state of the world. Even the skeptics tend to agree that the results of that redirected single-mindedness could be awesome...
Piracy declined in subsequent centuries, thanks to increasingly vigilant militaries and the development of the steam engine. But amid a drop in naval patrols and a boom in international trade following the end of the cold war, it has flourished anew--particularly in narrow choke points such as Asia's Strait of Malacca and the Gulf of Aden, which links the Red and Arabian seas. Buoyed by fast boats, fearsome weaponry and high-tech communications gear, pirates carried off 263 reported heists in 2007--28% of which occurred in the lawless waters off Nigeria and Somalia. With its vast coastline...
...Obama?" the wife of the leader of the Red Mosque said with pronounced derision. "If he is elected president he will invade Mecca and turn it into a Christian city. Muslims will fight this man to the last drop of blood...