"Jan Rasmussen" <1@2.3> skrev i en meddelelse
news:45a2bad2$0$15891$edfadb0f@dtext01.news.tele.dk...
>
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2132574.ece
> Published: 07 January 2007
>
> Blood and oil: How the West will profit from Iraq's most precious
> commodity
>
> The 'IoS' today reveals a draft for a new law that would give Western oil
> companies
> a massive share in the third largest reserves in the world. To the
> victors, the oil?
> That is how some experts view this unprecedented arrangement with a major
> Middle East oil producer that guarantees investors huge profits for the
> next 30 years
>
> So was this what the Iraq war was fought for, after all?
> As the number of US soldiers killed since the invasion rises past the
> 3,000 mark,
> and President George Bush gambles on sending in up to 30,000 more troops,
> The Independent on Sunday has learnt that the Iraqi government is about to
> push
> through a law giving Western oil companies the right to exploit the
> country's massive oil reserves.
>
> And Iraq's oil reserves, the third largest in the world, with an estimated
> 115 billion barrels
> waiting to be extracted, are a prize worth having. As Vice-President Dick
> Cheney noted in 1999,
> when he was still running Halliburton, an oil services company, the Middle
> East is the key to preventing
> the world running out of oil. [cut]
> -----
>
> 3000 amerikanske lejesoldater og et par danske, er billigt sluppet i
> forhold
> til hvad der står på spil, ved en nedgang i olie produktionen.
>
> USA's olie produktion peakede i 1970 , Englands i 2001 , Danmarks i
> 2004[1]
> uden import fra ekstern kilde er alle tre nationer på skidderen, og deres
> tilstedeværelse i Irak er vel så ikke overraskende.
>
>
http://home19.inet.tele.dk/fs2002/ThreeDaysforCondor-1.wmv 70sec.
>
> [1] Richard Heinberg - The Party's Over, side 103-104 +/- et par år.
Mærkeligt, at den oliemangel ikke afspejler sig i olieprisen,
http://www.marketwatch.com/tools/quotes/intchart.asp?symb=CL07G&sid=1814506&freq=1&time=8 .
Men det skyldes måske, at man har glemt at medregne de 200.000.000.000
tønder der ligger gemt ud for Østgrønland ?
Hilsen Sten