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As the Journal points out, that's understandable: on the one hand, although political moderation is on the upswing in Iran, the country is still judged by the State Department to be "the most active sponsor of state terrorism," but on the other, making nice would enhance U.S. companies' access to the Caspian Sea oil fields, the world's most significant untapped petroleum and gas reserves.
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).
According to Global 2000 , between 1975-2000, "the world's remaining petroleum resources per capita can be expected to decline by at least 50 percent."
Instead, Slifka is a Bostonian who owns Global Petroleum Corp., New England's largest distributor of gasoline.
Excluded from the definition of land are the natural resources (that is, depletable resources such as mineral deposits and petroleum; renewable resources such as timber, and the outer-continental shelf resources) related to land.