X-Message-Number: 24062 From: Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 15:03:27 EDT Subject: Re: CryoNet #24040 - #24046 Last night Charlie Rose interviewed the head of Exxon who said something to the effect that he could get as much oil as he wanted from anywhere any time he wanted to. The world market is awash in oil. The Saudis control the price only because they have more than anybody else and can get it out of the ground cheaper than anyone else, but they can't gouge us because there is way too much elsewhere and no sign that it will stop flowing in the realisticly forseable near future, i.e. next 25 years. If they try to raise their price above a certain level, others will happily rush in to fill the need. We have lots to worry about but cryonicists in US or Europe or anywhere else should not loose sleep on this one. Ron Havelock, CI Member Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=24062