1.0 link 38677 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/raymond-j-learsy/saudi-arabias-oil-soverei_b_38677.html Late in December the subjects of King Abdullah's Saudi Arabia received what others, elsewhere might have termed happily as a Christmas present. The King decreed that a planned 25 percent increase in the price of regular gasoline be rescinded. Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi, whom we all know as having been in the vanguard recently to bring about the first OPEC production cuts in 2 ½ years in a collusive effort to support a world price of $60/barrel. Al-Naimi was able...

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