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In any event, it is still not clear why an oil shortage should put pressure on refining (one would expect the reverse) and why the prices resulting ought to rise (for fear would scarcely suggest `reduction' except in a petroleum trade journal or oil company annual report).
The WP recently reported that a host of prominent former foreign policy officials including Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft had lobbied on behalf of various petroleum industry interests for just such an outcome.
British Petroleum, the world's third-largest oil company, announced that "there is now enough scientific evidence to warrant concern about whether human activity--primarily the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas--is changing Earth's climate."
Today moves toward international mergers and acquisitions are picking up momentum in a broad spectrum of industries, such as financial services, communications, automobiles and petroleum.
(Clinton has already proposed selling off the petroleum reserve.)