Reply #8: Self evident answers!

[Tinoire]

Sao Tome and Principle - two tiny islands off the coast of West Africa populated by 160,000 people - could be sitting on up to four billion barrels of crude oil.

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Sao Tome was an important "alternative source of oil outside the politically volatile Middle East," he told Mr Bush, reminding him that his country "is strategically situated on the most important petroleum area in the world today."

A Texas company Environmental Remediation Holding Corp has had rights to two offshore fields in the country's territorial waters since 1997.

There is excitement about the creation by Sao Tome and Nigeria of a Joint Development Zone (JDZ) - covering an area slightly smaller than Belgium - which officials say could produce 250,000 barrels of oil a day within five years.

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But if oil starts flowing the country's fortunes could vastly improve; each citizen could be worth $1m, according to one estimate.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3070813.stm

BUSH! RAPING AND PILLAGING THE THIRD WORLD!