Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.Letters, Jul. 30, 1979
It makes my blood boil to see the belligerent stance you take against OPEC.
Since the principle of rule-or-ruin has failed, the only option left to the shortsighted ex-rulers is to scream and call the oil exporting countries names more becoming of themselves for their predatory exploitation of the same countries during the past century.
Razach Monem Winterthur, Switzerland
The OPEC nations are actually supplying the incentive for their own replacement in the marketplace by making alternative energy sources competitive with petroleum. They are doing the world a great favor.
William E. Hensley Jr. Angleton, Texas...
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