Part 1:
The price of oil rocketed to a record high of 127.82 dollars per barrel on Friday, as US President George W. Bush prepared to urge Saudi Arabia to pump more crude…
US President George W. Bush arrived in Saudi Arabia from Israel for talks with the world’s biggest crude exporter on record oil prices that have hit Western consumers hard.
Bush’s Air Force One touched down shortly before 2:00 pm (1100 GMT) at Riyadh’s King Khaled international airport, where King Abdullah led a red-carpet welcome for the US president and his wife Laura.
Part 2: Bush fell to his knees and begged.
Part 3:
Saudi Arabia today rebuffed George Bush’s appeal to increase production and help cut record oil prices, the White House said.
It was the second time this year that the pleas of the US president, who is visiting King Abdullah, have fallen on deaf ears.
Such willing friends and allies.
#17 There are plenty of refineries. If that was a problem the refineries we have today would all be running at 100% capacity. They are not!
#19 I assume you are being sarcastic. There is no “Magic Bullet”. We simply have to figure out how to live via electricity based transportation, while simultaneously building renewable energy sources and upgrading the electric grid to handle it. Unfortunately it may take DECADES to get back to where we currently are.
A couple of promising technologies still in the experimental stage:
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=9601
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=15352
# 21 ArianeB
Do I have really to spell it out when I am being incredibly and most obviously sarcastic?
If I do, I would rather leave that reader to their own dull and blundering ways.
Could it be understood any other reasonable way?
I wonder what will become of the Middle East when the oil runs out…
Even the Bush family friends sre bailing on W.
I was reading somewhere that they are building in Dubay or surroundings, the first Institut and University dedicated exclusively to renewable energy in the world. Also they are in a process of building the first city in the world which will run entirely on solar power and will be the most efficient and ecofriendly one in the world.
>>they are saving the “Magic Wand” for
>>Barack Hussein Obama.
Golly… Barack HUSSEIN Obama? Isn’t he, like, Saddam’s cousin or something? Do you suppose Obama was responsible for 9/11 too??
Sheesh.
One reason why the world is in such a mess is that it is run by people who turn up.
(i.e.) boofheads like George W bush who attack wankers like Saddam and suck up to Saudi potentates who cannot see the danger of what they are doing.
You have lunatics from some other oil producing countries talking about $200 a barrel.
The world will sooner or later have to call these black mailers bluff and pay more for other sources, such as oil sands derived gasoline, ethanol and methanol.
Only real competition will shorten these smart arses up and bring oil back to a sustainable level of around $50 to $70 a barrel.
The real story is that the Saudis agreed to raise oil output by 300,000 barrels a day, and as I predicted the Strategic Petroleum Reserve contracts are going to yield another 75000 barrels a day. Turns out I was off by one year, and the contracts run out in 2009, but they are suspending filling with 3% empty.
Maybe they should consider producing more oil here? Meantime we have China drilling for oil off American shores while enviros ban it for Americans.
#26
Truth is, I am for and voting for Barack HUSSEIN Obama.
As I asked in # 22.
Do I have really have to spell it out, when I am being incredibly and most obviously sarcastic?
Answering my own question: In practice (because since I hate pandering, I find in most cases, you really can’t educate Americans), I tend to leave those who are obviously dull, to their own lame and blundering ways.
>>I find in most cases, you really
>>can’t educate Americans
Well, if you’re voting for Barack HUSSEIN Obama, that must make you an American too, eh Pot?
-Kettle