Over a barrel: industry players predict future price movements
$200
Arjun Murti
Goldman Sach’s star energy analyst, based in New York, won plaudits for predicting a super-spike in oil prices to $100 as far back as 2005. His latest prediction is for prices to hit $200 per barrel within two years because supplies will be unable to meet soaring global demand.
Goldman Sachs claims a chronic lack of supply will lead to a dramatic and continuous rise in oil prices, followed at some point by a steep drop in demand as consumers finally respond by cutting consumption.
$150
T Boone Pickens
The legendary Texan oil speculator has forecast that oil will hit $150 per barrel this year. Now that his previous target of $125 has been exceeded, T Boone Pickens believes oil prices would continue rising because of a fundamental imbalance between supply and demand. He added that President Bush wasted his time making a trip to Saudi Arabia asking for more oil. The Saudis announced a 300,000 barrel per day increase but within hours, the oil price had rallied again to a record high.
$80
Ed Morse
Murti’s Wall Street rival over at Lehman Brothers gave warning this week that crude prices were developing into a bubble and had surged far ahead of a rise in the underlying cost structure of the industry. He also said Saudi Arabia might wait until after the US elections to pump more oil in order to buy influence with the incoming US president. He has predicted a steep fall in prices to $80 in 2009.
$35-$65
John Hofmeister
is the president of Shell Oil Company, the US arm of Royal Dutch Shell. While he stopped short of predicting where prices would head, Mr Hofmeister said this week that Shell could succeed with oil prices at $35-$65 a barrel.
Mr Hofmeister told a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on oil prices: I think in a range – somewhere between $35 and $65 a barrel – is what has been consistent in our ability to run a successful company.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article3987548.ece
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.
