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Bush's Deep Reasons for War on Iraq: Oil, Petrodollars, and the OPEC Euro question
Topic: Current Events 2:23 pm EST, Mar 17, 2003

The chief reason why dollars are more than pieces of green paper is that countries all over the world need them for purchases, principally of oil. This requires them in addition to maintain dollar reserves to protect their own currency; and these reserves, when invested, help maintain the current high levels of the US securities markets.

...the need to dominate oil from Iraq is also deeply intertwined with the defense of the dollar. Its current strength is supported by OPEC's requirement (secured by a secret agreement between the US and Saudi Arabia) that all OPEC oil sales be denominated in dollars. This requirement is currently threatened by the desire of some OPEC countries to allow OPEC oil sales to be paid in euros.

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Bush's Deep Reasons for War on Iraq: Oil, Petrodollars, and the OPEC Euro question



 
 
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