http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/05/29/us.saudi.prince.oil/index.html?hpt=T2

Saudi prince calls for lower oil prices

(CNN) -- Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal said Sunday that he wants
oil prices to drop so that the United States and Europe don't
accelerate efforts to wean themselves off his country's supply.

In an interview broadcast Sunday on "CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS," the
grandson of the founding king of modern Saudi Arabia said the oil
price should be somewhere between $70 and $80 a barrel, rather than
the current level of over $100 a barrel.

"We don't want the West to go and find alternatives, because, clearly,
the higher the price of oil goes, the more they have incentives to go
and find alternatives," said Talal, who is listed by Forbes as the
26th richest man in the world.

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