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Gets IT on February 5, 2006 - 7:19pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Hey no problem.  440 B is only the price of about 20 months USA import supply (@60).  If the price goes up, the payback time is even less.  Wish I could get my project economics down to a level that good.

Terrorist control of the oil price could be negated with a meaningfull energy reduction program.  Why not spend the 440 B giving credits towards hybred cars for anyone recycling a SUV or other guzzler.  The Army could buy them up, transport them to Iraq and rent them to the high paid USA contractors.  They could afford to fill them up there with that cheap Halliburton Brand gas.

Problem solved.

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dipchip on February 6, 2006 - 11:15am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Hey: A guy with your oilfield experience should know Halliburton doesn't produce or sell sub-surface gas. What kind are you referring to?
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Gets IT on February 6, 2006 - 1:39pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Ya i know.  I needed a way to loosly refer to the fuels they are supposedly using in Iraq.  They stand accused of fruad by inflating the transportation cost and then rebilling the US Government for the inflated price.  

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35138-2005Mar14.html

Apparently they're buying fuel somewhere in Turkey for less than $100,000 and then charge a staggering 27,000,000 to transport it to Iraq.  True, I haven't been able to find out the kind of fuel or what volume was purchased that would require such a high transportation fee, but if I take the 27million and assume a super high transportation cost of 25cents/gal that gives me a minimum volume of 108 million gallons of fuel.  Then that figures the price/gallon is 0.00075 or 75 cents FOR A 1000 GAL (I want some of that!) and you still need about 8000 trucks to move it.  Logistics problem.  Highly improbable numbers in any case.

Maybe they air freighted it in with 500 KC-111s with fighter escorts.

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netfind on February 12, 2006 - 12:38am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
  It's become such a major military ally on the side of evil this intertwining of oil and terrorism. Talk of spending for credits on hybrid cars as military budgeting sounds a bit like Carter in the 70s. We laughed then. We're not laughing now. Oil under the ownership of military enemies was a problem seen clearly back then, and we started to take the right steps. Had we continued on that path, think of how much easier it would be to carry out our war on terrorism now. Any reasonable military action America takes in this war is viewed by most of the world, allies badly needed, as an immoral grab for oil. Any national security steps we take anywhere near an oil well is viewed as criminal. If we would be making all our fuel and plastic more cheaply from sources other than oil, it would be just America vs those that commit atrocities like 9/11. And we would have nearly all the world militarily on our side.
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