quinta-feira, novembro 15, 2007

Estou a fazer figas para que não descubram nada ao largo de Peniche ou lá onde raio era.

«Indeed, less than two decades after the oil price increase, all major oil-producing developing countries except Indonesia and the scarcely populated Arab nations experienced serious disorganizations in their state bureaucracies and severe disruption in their regimes. Just as gold had once tainted King Mida’s life, oil seemed to “petrolize” the economy and polity of these countries. “It is the devil’s excrement”, OPEC’s founder, Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo, observed. “We are drowning in the devil’s excrement.”»

The Paradox of Plenty, Terry Lynn Karl