“The war we’re in now is a war in which, if you take the 22 Arab states plus Iran, their population approximately equals that of the United States and Canada together: 340 million, give or take 10 million. That area, those 23 states, other than gas and oil, export to the world less than Finland.($67.88 billion 2005)“….Former CIA Director James Woolsey. More here.
As more and more countries begin to view the Brazilian “ethanol driven economy” with envy, the ME oil producing states won’t even be able compete with the global exporting economy of Estonia ($7.4 billion). KGS