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We already tried for Venezuela covertly - and now with the talking points. I think this is probably credible enough to worry about, though I wonder whether the neocons will ever be able to convince Congress + a majority of the American people that this is practical after Iraq. There's certainly no hope of getting anything out of it in the reality-based community's thinking - not after Iraq, and more importantly for Shiites, not after Lebanon. We probably don't have the military power to do anything but carpet bombing Tehran.
If Bush goes ahead without congressional approval, you may as well cede those hopes of Repubs being in power at any time in the next 20 years - something that's probably a good deal more important to their state of mind than oil.
OK Goose, you've been outed. Come out and stand proud next to Valerie Plame. ;-)
Major Alaskan oil field shutting down By MARY PEMBERTON, Associated Press Writer
17 minutes ago
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Half the oil production on Alaska's North Slope was being shut down Sunday after BP Exploration Alaska, Inc. discovered severe corrosion and a small spill from a Prudhoe Bay oil transit line.
BP officials said they didn't know how long the Prudhoe Bay field would be off line. "I don't even know how long it's going to take to shut it down," said Tom Williams, BP's senior tax and royalty counsel.
Once the field is shut down, in a process expected to take day, BP said oil production will be reduced by 400,000 barrels a day. That's close to 8 percent of U.S. oil production as of May 2006, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060807/ap_on_bi_ge/oil_field_shutdown
Interesting, that US and Russia have convenient "accidents" that allow each country to keep it's oil on home turf.
Westexas...take it away...this is your cue.
But I guess if you wish to see some grand conspiracy in any and every major event that happens, even a damded old corroded pipeline will suffice. Yes, it's all those evil-doers in Washington who caused this pipeline shutdown. They have probably been putting salt and water on the pipeline for months just to make it corrode.
Now, put this in the backdrop of Iran saying they will use the "oil weapon" if the security council pushes things and it starts to smell not like a conspiracy theory, but perhaps countries keeping their oil wealth for themselves.
Is that such a HUGE stretch of the imagination.
Second, everyone is screaming for more production, not less. Sure, it makes perfect sense to produce less, saving oil for when times really get tough. But who in Washington is that smart? They all want to drill more, produce more, get gas prices lower.
What most people fail to realize, especially all those conspiracy theory folks, is that except for one or two, Washington politicians know how to get elected and not much else. They haven't a clue about peak oil. They take the USGSs word for it and think oil will not peak until the mid 30s. And they believe by that time oil will be obsolete, we will be running everything on something much cheaper.
Yes, they really believe that, and so do most Americans. No one in Washington would dream of sabotaging BPs pipeline just to try to cut back on US oil production. Hell, they all want the exact opposite. They want more oil, cheaper gas, fewer pissed off voters.