the American dollar. This will push China’s economy into collapse, when it does; we’ll be ready to step in and ‘help them.’ We’ll be the world’s only superpower ensuring our control over the world’s assets.”
“Mr. President, a good plan as long as President Brownstone doesn’t come up with one of surprises the Americans are known for.”
“This time they won’t have time to come up with one of their nasty surprises. They’re going to be kept off balance on all fronts.”
Chapter 4
The twelve members of OPEC agree to meet in the Grand Hotel Keminiski. In order to arrange for the member’s security, the hotel has been closed for four days so each country’s security forces can screen every inch of the hotel. Any hotel guests still in the hotel when the security screens begin are paid to move to other hotels. OPEC, as they normally do, rent the entire hotel for a weekend meeting. Only the Saudi member, the Prince, decided to stay elsewhere. He never stayed in the same hotel as the other members. He liked to be protected by his own handpicked security teams.
None of the OPEC members are happy, they are on the verge of losing one of their largest customers. In addition, the technology the Americans are using, can be and has started to be, deployed by other countries cutting deeper into OPEC’s income. OPEC knows if the trend isn’t changed very quickly they will have lost the “golden goose.”
The Venezuelan minister starts the meeting off, “My friends; we have to stop the Americans from expanding their domestic oil and gas production. The fracking technology is soon going to be adopted by every country. We’re going to lose trillions of dollars, our organization is going to collapse, and our economies are going to fail. Our people are going to starve and revolt. All of our countries are going to be turned inside out, none of us can afford to change our basic economic model. We don’t have the time or the resources to change. I suggest we throw all of our support behind the LSA’s case against President Brownstone. If Brownstone is taken down, there’s a very good chance Reid can merge the LSA and USA together; he will stop their domestic production and sign a new-exclusive agreement with us. He will sell us their latest military technology and pay us in precious metals for our oil. My friends, our time is running out, did any of us really believe the Americans would change so quickly, or be able to ramp up their domestic production so quickly? We in Venezuela didn’t. I know most of you like us, thought OPEC could manipulate the American press forever, they and their Hollywood executives would take our money to convince the public that fracking was wrong and damages the environment. This President Brownstone is a very dangerous man. We’ve made offers to him; he removed our people’s diplomatic status, and he sent them home! This isn’t a normal American politician who can be easily purchased.
“My friends, according to our latest projections the USA will cease importing oil and gas from all of us in less than twenty months. Every month sees their imports decrease. I propose we do everything within our power while we still have some, to bring Brownstone down before we all become a third rate country.”
Saudi Prince Azaid takes the podium, “Fellow members of OPEC, We haven’t always agreed on everything, our governments aren’t the same; our philosophies aren’t the same. We in Saudi agree with the esteemed representative from Venezuela. Our internal projections agree with the twenty-month timeline of when the USA will no longer require any oil imports. Our intelligence organization has discovered that President Brownstone has secretly ordered the construction of huge underground bunkers to hold a new-strategic reserve containing over one billion barrels of sweet crude. Added to their existing 727 million barrels this will provide the USA with over 180 days of supply if
“Mr. President, a good plan as long as President Brownstone doesn’t come up with one of surprises the Americans are known for.”
“This time they won’t have time to come up with one of their nasty surprises. They’re going to be kept off balance on all fronts.”
Chapter 4
The twelve members of OPEC agree to meet in the Grand Hotel Keminiski. In order to arrange for the member’s security, the hotel has been closed for four days so each country’s security forces can screen every inch of the hotel. Any hotel guests still in the hotel when the security screens begin are paid to move to other hotels. OPEC, as they normally do, rent the entire hotel for a weekend meeting. Only the Saudi member, the Prince, decided to stay elsewhere. He never stayed in the same hotel as the other members. He liked to be protected by his own handpicked security teams.
None of the OPEC members are happy, they are on the verge of losing one of their largest customers. In addition, the technology the Americans are using, can be and has started to be, deployed by other countries cutting deeper into OPEC’s income. OPEC knows if the trend isn’t changed very quickly they will have lost the “golden goose.”
The Venezuelan minister starts the meeting off, “My friends; we have to stop the Americans from expanding their domestic oil and gas production. The fracking technology is soon going to be adopted by every country. We’re going to lose trillions of dollars, our organization is going to collapse, and our economies are going to fail. Our people are going to starve and revolt. All of our countries are going to be turned inside out, none of us can afford to change our basic economic model. We don’t have the time or the resources to change. I suggest we throw all of our support behind the LSA’s case against President Brownstone. If Brownstone is taken down, there’s a very good chance Reid can merge the LSA and USA together; he will stop their domestic production and sign a new-exclusive agreement with us. He will sell us their latest military technology and pay us in precious metals for our oil. My friends, our time is running out, did any of us really believe the Americans would change so quickly, or be able to ramp up their domestic production so quickly? We in Venezuela didn’t. I know most of you like us, thought OPEC could manipulate the American press forever, they and their Hollywood executives would take our money to convince the public that fracking was wrong and damages the environment. This President Brownstone is a very dangerous man. We’ve made offers to him; he removed our people’s diplomatic status, and he sent them home! This isn’t a normal American politician who can be easily purchased.
“My friends, according to our latest projections the USA will cease importing oil and gas from all of us in less than twenty months. Every month sees their imports decrease. I propose we do everything within our power while we still have some, to bring Brownstone down before we all become a third rate country.”
Saudi Prince Azaid takes the podium, “Fellow members of OPEC, We haven’t always agreed on everything, our governments aren’t the same; our philosophies aren’t the same. We in Saudi agree with the esteemed representative from Venezuela. Our internal projections agree with the twenty-month timeline of when the USA will no longer require any oil imports. Our intelligence organization has discovered that President Brownstone has secretly ordered the construction of huge underground bunkers to hold a new-strategic reserve containing over one billion barrels of sweet crude. Added to their existing 727 million barrels this will provide the USA with over 180 days of supply if
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