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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bbsam" data-source="post: 5496984" data-attributes="member: 22662">Maybe they do.  Fact remains that it tends to be good for the economy to control the oil market.  It is hard for the party out of power to rally even the hardest base members for higher energy prices even when “it’s being sold to China!”  That’s how global commodities work. It’s put on the market and whoever pays for it gets it.  Like capitalism.  And the more of it on the retail market, the lower the prices go.  Doesn’t matter if it’s here, Europe, South Africa or China.  Capitalism doesn’t care.</blockquote>