Hong Kong oil tanker refuses to visit Basra due to terror threat
The crew of a Hong Kong-registered oil tanker refused to dock in the Iraqi oil terminal of Basra out of fears of terror attacks, the company that owns the ship said Tuesday.
AP
Basic Choices and Constraints on Long-term Energy Supplies
Population growth and energy demand are exhausting the world’s fossil energy supplies,
some on the timescale of a single human lifespan. Increasingly, sharing natural resources
will require close international cooperation, peace, and security.
‘Independence from oil’ declared
“Americans are paying the ultimate price for the oil on Ford’s hands, and today’s protest marks a tipping point in the grassroots movement for an automotive energy revolution.”
Fast decline of magnetic field hints at reversal
The collapse of the Earth’s magnetic field, which both guards the planet and guides many of its creatures, appears to have started in earnest about 150 years ago.
Nigeria: U.S. Offers Military Help to Protect Offshore Oil
The United States, keen to develop new sources of oil supply outside the Middle East, has offered to help Nigeria protect the flow of oil in the Gulf of Guinea and combat terrorist attacks on the oil industry, officials said.
China and Japan’s oil rivalry unavoidable
Rivalry for energy, especially oil, between China and Japan on a global scale is unavoidable. From a Japanese perspective, the emergence of a strong and prosperous China is not a pleasant thought.
Argentina’s Phony Energy Crisis
The petrol consortiums and to some extent the governments of Bolivia, Argentina and Chile have woven a tapestry of distortion and cover-ups to hide crucial elements in the United States strategy of forced appropriation of Latin American natural resources.
US: Postponement of the November election?
The Bush administration has asked for legislation enabling it to postpone the November election as a result of a terror attack.
Living in the best of all possible endtimes
Economics is the game of tiddly-winks that we can afford to play only in the midst of easy, abundant energy. Energy is the Donut, economics is the Hole.
Blackout Hits Athens Month Before Olympics
The worst blackout in more than a decade hit Athens and southern Greece on Monday, leaving millions sweltering in a heat wave and raising concerns about whether the lights will go out at next month’s Olympics.
Oil Kamikaze
In the past two months no fewer than a dozen people in Iraq and Saudi Arabia demonstrated in three separate incidents their willingness to die for the cause of hurting the U.S economy in what appears to be a new phase in the war on terror.
China 40% dependent on crude oil imports as of May
As the second greatest crude oil consuming country in the world, China has seen a the gap between domestic ability to supply and demand for crude oil widen in the first five months of this year, according to figures released by China Customs.
