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	<title><![CDATA[The Why of Chokingly High Oil Prices: Bush Together with Saudi Arabia Spells Disaster for America]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/raymond-j-learsy/the-why-of-chokingly-high_b_101262.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[There was a time when the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries 
(OPEC) controlled by Saudi Arabia and under the pragmatic thumb of 
Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, would have opened wide the oil spigots in the
face of sky high prices and a looming U.S. economic recession. The 
kingdom's wily old minister wanted to maintain a balance, siphoning off 
just enough out of consumer's pockets to keep the kingdom in opulent 
palaces and extravagant gift items for U.S. Presidents -- all without...]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Business]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-05-20T05:12:00-04:00</date_published>
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