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Re:The United States Is Now the Largest Global Crude Oil Pro... by rsj_hn on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @11:07PM (#17975645)
I'm scared about a Saudi collapse. I can imagine that regime, which is already very radical, becoming much more so if the profits from extraction run out.
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Re:The United States Is Now the Largest Global Crude Oil Pro... by dennisgorelik on Thursday September 13, 2018 @08:29AM (#17978028)
Through the history, loss of oil tax income - reliably made authoritarian governments less aggressive and more democratic.

Consider examples of USSR/Russia, Venezuela, Iran ...

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