Title: Over a barrel
First published: 2005
Description: Longtime commodities trader Raymond J. Learsy lifts the veil of the Mideast oil cartel, showing how OPEC manipulates the oil markets and destabilizes the world's economy. With refreshing candor and an insider's perspective, Learsy explains how OPEC: twists bogus perceptions of oil scarcity to hike prices and gain political power; is compromised by Islamist terrorist connections that fuel anti-American hatred with dollars from our own wallets; keeps Third-World nations in abject poverty despite their rich oil deposits; and became the de facto master of Iraq's newly liberated oil fields. A sharp, sweeping survey of OPEC's methods of economic dominance, this book explains how to bust the Mideast oil cartel and chart our own course toward energy independence.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Political aspects, Petroleum industry and trade, Political aspects of Petroleum industry and trade, Petroleum industry and trade, political aspects, Petroleum industry and trade, middle east
Places: Middle East
LC classification: HD9578.M52 L43 2005