From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Sun Apr 07 2002 - 07:52:03 MDT
Dan:
>BTW, as a general fact or factoid, I've read that the US only gets about
>10% or 15% of its oil from the Middle East. This is hardly a big
>dependency.
Yet, the Arab Emirates peg their crude oil prices to the dollar.
http://www.uae.gov.ae/mofi/English/economy.htm
"Exchange Rate: The U.A.E Dirham , although officially pegged to the SDR,
has effectively been fixed to the U.S Dollar [...]"
Amara
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