But the sharp reaction from oil markets and stockmarkets suggests it did.
Hence the panicky reaction in oil markets to Iraq's announcement on April 8th of a month-long suspension of oil exports and earlier threats for a similar embargo from Iraq and Libya.
Fund manager expects this reaction to the energy sector as oil hits record highs.
The talks are a reaction to fears that the rising oil prices will hurt an already shaky economic recovery worldwide.
However British Conservative Struan Stevenson said the response was an "over-reaction", and insisted that oil drilling in the North Sea was probably the safest in the world.
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The extend to which BP had worked to establish a positive reputation likely made the reaction to the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill even harsher.
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No doubt investors will carefully gauge consumer reaction to the switch to trans-fat free oil, particularly on the taste on its signature fries.
Nineteen days after the wreck, its massive oil slick hit western Guernsey and in a reaction similar to the Cornish the authorities decided to act fast.
It is a fact of life that if you report that five million limpets died as a result of the Sea Empress oil spill, it will produce less public reaction than the sight of a single puffin looking a bit unsteady on its feet.
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He criticised the approach for a failure to observe business etiquette and told Mr Mittal to look closely at a bid by China's CNOOC for Unocal, an American oil firm, which was scuppered by the hostile reaction of America's government and public.
All you do is cluster the corn-oil units around biodiesel plants that use another money-saving GreenShift innovation: a "continuous base catalyst reaction" system that relies on a "proprietary process intensification and advanced separation technologies"--whatever those are.
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