Giving Away Their Oil For Free -- August 20, 2015

Everyone is aware that Saudi Arabia is giving away their oil for $60 or less. I've also opined that Saudi Arabia literally gives away their oil for free to some countries for various reasons which is another reason Saudi embarked upon a 5-year, $35 billion oil exploration program (which appears to have largely failed).

Today, Don sent me another example of Saudi's challenges with this tweet:

Saudi Arabia to supply Egypt with $1.4 billion in oil products for 3 months starting in Sept., Egypt's oil minister says - @Reuters.

The tweet doesn't say explicitly that Egypt is getting this for free (it probably isn't) but one can assume the deal is quite favorable for Egypt; not so favorable for Saudi Arabia.

Of course, Saudi's expectations are that Egypt will fight "their" war for them in Yemen.

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Tracking Baltimore Homicides

Either the numbers are wrong, or the numbers are very coincidental today. (Dynamic link.)

As of today, there have been 211 homicides so far in 2015 in Baltimore.

In 2014, there were a total of 211 homicides.

For the record, there is no area code 211 in North America. The three-digit number 211 is reserved for special services (similar to 411 information and 911 emergency) so cannot be issued as an area code. In many areas, 211 is used as a short code to reach health and human services referrals.

Maybe Baltimore could use "211" to report another homicide.