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Old Nov 19th, 2008, 11:54 PM       
OPEC wants to keep the price of oil just low enough that it isn't profitable for the US to produce it's own energy. It costs around $90 per barrel to squeeze oil out of shale so as long as oil costs just less then that, arabs will get the money and not the Canadians.
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