Saudis to boost oil production before election in effort to help Bush

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NOTE: They did it once and now they're doing it again...
A top Saudi official has assured President Bush that his country will increase oil production to lower gas prices before November to help the president's re-election prospects, according to a broadcast report Sunday.

Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, discussing his new book on the run-up to the Iraq war on CBS' '60 Minutes,' said Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador to the United States and a long-time friend of the Bush family, has given the pledge that "certainly over the summer, or as we get closer to the election, they could increase production several million barrels a day and the price would drop significantly."

http://money.cnn.com/2004/04/19/news/international/election_saudi/

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1. Same as what they are doing right now. Helping the friends of big oil. n/t

[JHB]

2. This is a foreign attempt to influence the election, and should be...

...exposed as such.

Who's the appeasers now?

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4. Actually this is an old attempt. Read the date. And this probably did in

some way affect the 2004 outcome.

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3. GOP willdo whatever it takes to not lose this election, either way expect

gas prices to jet back up after November 7th, regardless of who wins.

[depakid]

5. Any evidence for this?

I doubt that the Saudi's can boost production.