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Re:Cheap oil is taking shipping routes back to the 1800s by rosser on Friday March 04, 2016 @08:10PM (#11227916)
The major contributing factor to this practice being economically viable is that the big oil producers are trying to undercut one another. That isn't an "advance" in economics, or innovation, or fuel efficiency, or anything else.
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Re:Cheap oil is taking shipping routes back to the 1800s by ArkyBeagle on Friday March 04, 2016 @10:58PM (#11228349)
It's a bizarre case where the House of Saud is paring all other factors back to only their lift cost and the rest be damned.

It has the flop sweat of desperation to it.

The more that happens in That Region, it just makes the people who live there harken back to the Caliphate under the Ottoman Empire only even moreso.

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Re:Cheap oil is taking shipping routes back to the 1800s by oatmale on Friday March 04, 2016 @09:41PM (#11228176)
I like how you put the word advance in quotes implying that the poster you're responding to used that word, when in fact they did not.
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