forbes.com: Give Oil a Future
William Baldwin
05.19.08
The energy market is misbehaving. See the story by Christopher Helman, explaining the mystifying failure of consumers to cut back and producers to open the spigot. Here’s one more weirdness: the absence of a long-term futures market.
Users of petroleum pay $120 a barrel and wonder when the price is going to $240, which would wreck a lot of businesses and careers being invested in today. Amid all this agony there is exotic oil that could be profitably extracted at $60 but is just sitting there because producers have their own angst. They’re wondering whether the market will crash before they can get the stuff out of the ground. Petroleum price crashes have happened before, turning synfuel projects into rust buckets.
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
