Europes been using his oil for years.
Its good stuff.
Congratulations btw
Glad you finally caught up.
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Merry Christmas, Moammar
posted 12/25, by george van delaras (viewed 225 times) | Scope : National
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Moammar Gadhafi has gotten an early gift from the U.S., after 17 years of sanctions. In the spirit of Bush/Cheney oil diplomacy, Gadhafi has been given the opportunity to market more oil and natural gas. The U.S. deal stipulated that Moammar declare that he is going be a good little Colonel and not continue to develop nukes.
As with most of the Bush administration’s foreign policy actions, its real motivation is usually oil related. This time it is especially sweet...as in light, low-sulfur crude; the oil, in the deserts of Libya, has some of the highest valuation on the world market. The liquid natural gas (LNG) market is booming, too; and Libya has lots of that.
One might wonder why this Libyan news is cropping up right now. The timing of Libya regaining U.S. blessing does seem to have some unusual curiosities? Maybe we can get some likely answers by looking back at the Middle East.
Iraq is not particularly stable or pumping much oil, but the threat of Saddam destabilizing the region is gone. Now, that there seems to be more emphasis on cracking down on Saudi funding al Quaeda, terrorists threaten oil production. Problems.... like, oops, there goes an oil field up in smoke or pipeline set ablaze...make Bush supporters, like big oil interests, very anxious.
Other factors may play a part in the Libyan developments. Low sulfur crude is cheaper to refine and it goes along with Bush's energy policy to promote cleaner diesel fuel, which is used to promote cleaner burning diesel trucks and heavy equipment, not to mention all the old emergency power plants in stand-bye mode all over the U.S. (stand-bye means that they fire them up once a week for a hour or so, to keep them operational).
LNG is a big element of Bush energy policy, too. A seven-fold expansion of U.S. terminals from the current 4 is in the works. Demand for natural gas is increasing rapidly. “Merchant” power plants use gas turbine engines to generate electricity for the spot market; many are being built where ever market and transmission lines intersect. Many fleet vehicles use LNG, including buses that may start to reform LNG into hydrogen to be used in fuel cells. Natural gas is relatively clean burning and is thus a way to reduce emissions in dense urban areas.
Now, do you have a better idea what motivated Moammar's Christmas present? One sure outcome U.S. purchases of Libyan oil and gas will be that we will be supplying a known sponsor of past terrorism with the most essential weapon in the terrorist's arsenal...lots of money.
Merry Christmas
http://www.e-thepeople.org/article/28282/view?viewtype=
Its good stuff.
Congratulations btw
Glad you finally caught up.
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Merry Christmas, Moammar
posted 12/25, by george van delaras (viewed 225 times) | Scope : National
Popularity : 11 (11 encourage, 0 discourage)
Relevance : 11
Moammar Gadhafi has gotten an early gift from the U.S., after 17 years of sanctions. In the spirit of Bush/Cheney oil diplomacy, Gadhafi has been given the opportunity to market more oil and natural gas. The U.S. deal stipulated that Moammar declare that he is going be a good little Colonel and not continue to develop nukes.
As with most of the Bush administration’s foreign policy actions, its real motivation is usually oil related. This time it is especially sweet...as in light, low-sulfur crude; the oil, in the deserts of Libya, has some of the highest valuation on the world market. The liquid natural gas (LNG) market is booming, too; and Libya has lots of that.
One might wonder why this Libyan news is cropping up right now. The timing of Libya regaining U.S. blessing does seem to have some unusual curiosities? Maybe we can get some likely answers by looking back at the Middle East.
Iraq is not particularly stable or pumping much oil, but the threat of Saddam destabilizing the region is gone. Now, that there seems to be more emphasis on cracking down on Saudi funding al Quaeda, terrorists threaten oil production. Problems.... like, oops, there goes an oil field up in smoke or pipeline set ablaze...make Bush supporters, like big oil interests, very anxious.
Other factors may play a part in the Libyan developments. Low sulfur crude is cheaper to refine and it goes along with Bush's energy policy to promote cleaner diesel fuel, which is used to promote cleaner burning diesel trucks and heavy equipment, not to mention all the old emergency power plants in stand-bye mode all over the U.S. (stand-bye means that they fire them up once a week for a hour or so, to keep them operational).
LNG is a big element of Bush energy policy, too. A seven-fold expansion of U.S. terminals from the current 4 is in the works. Demand for natural gas is increasing rapidly. “Merchant” power plants use gas turbine engines to generate electricity for the spot market; many are being built where ever market and transmission lines intersect. Many fleet vehicles use LNG, including buses that may start to reform LNG into hydrogen to be used in fuel cells. Natural gas is relatively clean burning and is thus a way to reduce emissions in dense urban areas.
Now, do you have a better idea what motivated Moammar's Christmas present? One sure outcome U.S. purchases of Libyan oil and gas will be that we will be supplying a known sponsor of past terrorism with the most essential weapon in the terrorist's arsenal...lots of money.
Merry Christmas
http://www.e-thepeople.org/article/28282/view?viewtype=
Sanctions busting was big business with Rhodesia and S.Africa too.
Household names in the oil biz unloading oil through the Durban offshore deepwater buoy when apartheid was meant to be getting sanctioned.
All we did was paint out the funnel and ships name, then bung up a Monrovian or Liberian flag of convenience.
Its just bizniss.
Do ya think ya gettin it yet???
[This message was edited by eek on June 04, 2004 at 11:23 AM.]
Household names in the oil biz unloading oil through the Durban offshore deepwater buoy when apartheid was meant to be getting sanctioned.
All we did was paint out the funnel and ships name, then bung up a Monrovian or Liberian flag of convenience.
Its just bizniss.
Do ya think ya gettin it yet???
[This message was edited by eek on June 04, 2004 at 11:23 AM.]
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> Europes been using his oil for years.
Its good stuff.
Congratulations btw
Glad you finally caught up.
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Yeah well times are a changin for you freedom moochers....This Lybia thing just makes happen what guys like you hate a stronger bigger USA.
Its good stuff.
Congratulations btw
Glad you finally caught up.
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Yeah well times are a changin for you freedom moochers....This Lybia thing just makes happen what guys like you hate a stronger bigger USA.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Patriot:
Yeah well times are a changin for you freedom moochers....This Lybia thing just makes happen what guys like you hate a stronger bigger USA.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Its not a case of hating the USA Pat. its your foreign policies that people hate.
They're so naiive its unreal, and they create war and division.
Vietnam was the same, wot a fekking mess you made of SE Asia.
But you won't learn from history.
You just keep on trying, and you won't listen.
The only thing that curtails you tends to be the $$ cost.
After 5-10 years it will bite, and at that point your middle east foreign policy will become more realistic.
Until then, the pointless deaths on both sides will continue.
Yeah well times are a changin for you freedom moochers....This Lybia thing just makes happen what guys like you hate a stronger bigger USA.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Its not a case of hating the USA Pat. its your foreign policies that people hate.
They're so naiive its unreal, and they create war and division.
Vietnam was the same, wot a fekking mess you made of SE Asia.
But you won't learn from history.
You just keep on trying, and you won't listen.
The only thing that curtails you tends to be the $$ cost.
After 5-10 years it will bite, and at that point your middle east foreign policy will become more realistic.
Until then, the pointless deaths on both sides will continue.
Patriot,
Do you realllllly think we're free?
Relatively?? maybe.
But give me a break, this country has more fuking stupid laws & more prisions than just about anywhere else.
We're well off because our government bullies the world around like a huge mafia ...
so you might be well off, but not free.
Do you realllllly think we're free?
Relatively?? maybe.
But give me a break, this country has more fuking stupid laws & more prisions than just about anywhere else.
We're well off because our government bullies the world around like a huge mafia ...
so you might be well off, but not free.
"Do you realllllly think we're free?"
Yes.
The fact that there are laws does not mean you are not free, it just means that other people believe there is an increase in quality of life with rules in place. The laws have been put in place by people that have been freely elected into office by their representatives.
Go wear a fxcking headscarf in your beloved France and see how free you are.
Yes.
The fact that there are laws does not mean you are not free, it just means that other people believe there is an increase in quality of life with rules in place. The laws have been put in place by people that have been freely elected into office by their representatives.
Go wear a fxcking headscarf in your beloved France and see how free you are.
What did Libya do, send us 20 barrels of oil in a "special edition" barrel? Maybe they had a nice picture of Georgie on it? hehe
If you are really worried about oil deliveries as you act like you are, why not pay attention to Venezuela and events there? No one has said a word about what is going on down there and that is 10 times more important to us than any crap happening in Iraq or Saudi Arabia short of them somehow blowing up oil tankers or their loading docks.
If you are really worried about oil deliveries as you act like you are, why not pay attention to Venezuela and events there? No one has said a word about what is going on down there and that is 10 times more important to us than any crap happening in Iraq or Saudi Arabia short of them somehow blowing up oil tankers or their loading docks.
Lander does have a point,
We were all free, in theory, until the power drunks decided to slowly chip away at the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
These current jackals in the White House are opportunists, who have essentially suspended freedom for their own fanatical cause.
Memo to Dumbya:
Go back to Texas and take little Johnny A. with ya jagoff
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Sure could use a trim
We were all free, in theory, until the power drunks decided to slowly chip away at the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
These current jackals in the White House are opportunists, who have essentially suspended freedom for their own fanatical cause.
Memo to Dumbya:
Go back to Texas and take little Johnny A. with ya jagoff
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Sure could use a trim
