Russian oil: won't join any cartel that would have it as a member
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 2:36AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett

WORLD NEWS: "Russia Warns on Low Oil Prices," by Gregory L. White, Wall Street Journal, 31 March 2009.

Cute bit from Russia's energy czar: we can't join an OPEC because Russia's government can't be bossing around private-sector energy players in our country!

But the larger truth is, Russia has never wanted to join OPEC and will never join it because it refuses to follow anybody else's lead on production quotas.

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