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		<title>Foreign Policy Oil Issue</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2009/09/09/foreign-policy-oil-issue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alternative energy myths]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foreign Policy magazine has a special on oil. Here&#8217;s a brief (very) summary of the best ones. It&#8217;s still the one &#8211; Daniel Yergin &#8211; A piece by the author of the oil bible &#8216;The Prize&#8221; Daniel Yergin explaining why we need oil now as much as ever. The strait dope on Hormuz &#8211; Eugene [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=1025&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A call for independent oil reserve measuring</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2009/03/12/a-call-for-independent-oil-reserve-measuring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil levels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil reserves]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Giacomo Luciani writes an interesting piece outlining the practices of states when it comes to publishing the levels of their oil reserves. He outlines the Saudi case whereby they simply predict their reserves based on what they found the previous year. He concludes by calling for an independent body to be the ultimate arbiter of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=460&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The oil roller coaster continues</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2008/10/28/the-oil-roller-coaster-continues/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2008/10/28/the-oil-roller-coaster-continues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US energy prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is a joy to see (from a Western perspective) the price of oil falling through the floor. The FT reported recently that US consumers had been spending up to 4% of their income on fuel – around $440 billion. However, now that oil prices have fallen to roughly half of what they were but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=245&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The evils of &#8216;big oil&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2008/10/23/the-evils-of-big-oil/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2008/10/23/the-evils-of-big-oil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[big oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exxonmobil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign policy in focus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the tyranny of oil]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Tyranny of Oil&#8221; is a new book ranting and raving about the evils of oil companies. I have only read the introduction which was &#8211; rather unsurprisingly &#8211; averagely written and generally far too excitedly angry. I agree that oil companies are not exactly warm, kind-hearted companies but I think that hatchet-job books like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=243&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oil Price Graph</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2008/10/09/oil-price-graph/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a simple but effective graph of oil prices over the last sixty years or so.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=184&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Oil prices 1947-2007</media:title>
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		<title>Iraq 5 years on &#8211; the statistics</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2008/03/17/iraq-5-years-on-the-statistics/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2008/03/17/iraq-5-years-on-the-statistics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[American ME Relations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[5 year anniversary]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foreign Policy magazine has an excellent graph this month, which depicts various statistics relating to the 5 year war in Iraq.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=110&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Chinese military base in Iran?</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2008/01/28/a-chinese-military-base-in-iran/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2008/01/28/a-chinese-military-base-in-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China and the ME]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Western-Muslim Relations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[chinese military base in iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[military base]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Straits of Hormuz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trade]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After France&#8217;s move to secure a military base in the UAE looking out at the Straits of Hormuz last week, it is no surprise that the Iranians are feeling yet more hemmed it. Kaveh L Afrasiabi , an Iranian expert has suggested that it might not be too long before Iran seek a Chinese base [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=39&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>China and the Middle East &#8211; made for each other</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2008/01/27/china-and-the-middle-east-made-for-each-other/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2008/01/27/china-and-the-middle-east-made-for-each-other/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dubai]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[money]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone wants a piece of the Middle East at the moment. Israel, unfortunately, takes this quite literally and seems intent on forever expanding its borders with uncomfortable overtones of lebensraum. American companies have, for the most part, been falling over themselves to find GCC cash to bail themselves out of their various woes. The list [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=35&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Map of world oil reserves</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2008/01/17/map-of-world-oil-reserves/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2008/01/17/map-of-world-oil-reserves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[map of oil reserves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil producers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil reserves]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This map equates a countries oil reserves with geographical size.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=14&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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