{"id":1460,"date":"2003-04-05T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-05T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2003-04-05T15:42:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-05T19:42:00","slug":"business-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/04\/05\/15\/42\/business-as-usual\/","title":{"rendered":"Business As Usual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m glad they cleared that one up&#8230; for a while it looked like the UN might be involved and we all know they are a communistic front. And they managed to sideline those pesky nationalists!<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/news\/896012.asp\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Iraqi exiles and senior U.S. officials agreed Saturday that international oil companies should take a leading post-war role in reviving Iraq&#8217;s oil industry &#8230; Some oil company executives had thought post-war nationalism would prevent early access to oilfields that, apart from those in Saudi Arabia and Mexico, are the only significant reserves not yet open to commercial capital. Production-sharing is the type of deal favored by the oil industry because it guarantees companies a healthy profit margin, even at low world oil prices. Alternative royalty schemes are weighted toward government revenue and can penalize investors at low prices &#8230; Long-term contracts are expected to see U.S. companies ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco and ConocoPhillips compete with Anglo-Dutch Shell, Britain&#8217;s BP, TotalFinaElf of France, Russia&#8217;s LUKOIL and Chinese state companies &#8230; the group did not discuss names for those that might run Iraq&#8217;s oil industry in the short term. Phillip Carroll, the former head of Shell in the United States, is said to be a candidate to oversee oil policy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a>It really is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hevanet.com\/peace\/us_government_violence.html\">about profits<\/a>, not oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m glad they cleared that one up&#8230; for a while it looked like the UN might be involved and we all know they are a communistic front. And they managed to sideline those pesky&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}