Bin Laden's Got a Future in Futures
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Categories: Corporate Accountability / Workers' Rights, National Security, Public Infrastructure / Transportation, Energy Policy
Categories: Corporate Accountability / Workers' Rights, National Security, Public Infrastructure / Transportation, Energy Policy
''If bin Laden takes over and becomes king of Saudi Arabia, he'd turn off the tap,'' said Roger Diwan, a managing director of the Petroleum Finance Company, a consulting firm in Washington. ''He said at one point that he wants oil to be $144 a barrel'' -- about six times what it sells for now.
Oil prices leapt $144 dollars a barrel on Wednesday after data revealed a drop in stockpiles of US crude.
