Irwin Stelzer: High oil prices? Expect no help from OPEC nations

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If you think the Arabs and their colleagues in the OPEC oil cartel are going to cut you a break when they meet today in Vienna (Austria, not Virginia), fuggedaboutit, as we say in New York.

Nor will they take time off to observe a moment of silence on this anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Instead, they will figure out how to keep crude oil prices high and gasoline prices in the neighborhood of $3 per gallon.

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