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  • Venezuela Enlists Iran To Steer Oil To China
    3 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Venezuela Enlists Iran To Steer Oil To China Andy Webb-Vidal in Caracas January 31 2005 Venezuela has enrolled Iran to help it accelerate a strategy to steer its oil exports to China and away from its traditional market of the US. A team of traders from Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), the state-owned oil company, is to be trained in London by Iranian advisers in how to best place oil in Asian markets, according to industry sources.
    The action is part of efforts by Venezuela, the (…)

  • The Axis Of Oil
    3 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Axis Of Oil Jehangir Pocha January 31, 2005
    China and India are locked in an increasingly aggressive wrangle with the United States over the world’s most critical economic commodity: oil. More than any other issue, this tussle will shape the economic, environmental and geopolitical future of these three countries, and the world.
    Ensuring a steady flow of cheap oil has always been one of the central goals of U.S. foreign and economic policy, and Washington’s preeminent position in the (…)

  • Were Americans Profiting From Oil-For-Food Scams?
    1 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Saddam’s Oily Deals Were Americans Profiting From Oil-For-Food Scams? Mark Hosenball, Newsweek Jan. 24 issue - If you’re puzzled by the Oil-for-Food scandal, don’t feel bad. Government investigators have been working the case for months, and still they fear they might need years to figure out who profited from helping Saddam Hussein beat U.N. sanctions against his regime. In 1996 the U.N. Security Council signed off on a program allowing Iraq to sell oil for hard currency to buy food and (…)

  • Caulking For Change
    25 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Mike Schiller
    There are many issues where I find myself in agreement with John Kerry, and many issues where I find myself in disagreement with him. Overall, I obviously agree more with his philosophies than with Bush’s philosophies, but my views are usually much closer to those of Howard Dean’s. Then again, there are times when I find myself to left of Dean, and times when I take a position which liberals think of as conservative, but which I still consider liberal. We’re all (…)

  • The Three Technologies That Will Blow Oil Away
    25 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Three Technologies That Will Blow Oil Away
    © By Daniel A. Stafford 01/24/2005
    There are currently three relatively new technologies poised to put oil to rest in the United States. Each has been years in development, each is reaching a production price range that is directly competitive with traditional power sources. Together, they overcome seasonal limitations on renewables generation and vastly reduce atmospheric pollutants, virtually eliminating carbon dioxide being added to the (…)

  • Bush’s Choice for Energy Secretary Was One of Texas’ Top Five Worst Polluters
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    In the bizarro world that President Bush lives in, it pays-literally-to be a miserable failure, a criminal and a corporate con man. Those are just some of the characteristics of the dastardly men and women who were tapped recently to fill the vacancies in Bush’s second-term cabinet.
    But one of the President’s most outrageous decisions (besides naming Alberto Gonzales, who concocted a legal case for torturing foreign prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, Attorney (…)

  • US Ignored Warning On Iraqi Oil Smuggling
    16 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Claudio Gatti For months, the US Congress has been investigating activities that violated the United Nations oil-for-food programme and helped Saddam Hussein build secret funds to acquire arms and buy influence. President George W. Bush has linked future US funding of the international body to a clear account of what went on under the multi-billion dollar programme. But a joint investigation by the Financial Times and Il Sole 24 Ore, the Italian business daily, shows that the single (…)

  • Key Iraqi oil pipeline blown up
    4 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

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    A major attack on the main pipeline connecting the oilfields of Kirkuk with the Turkish port of Jihan has halted limited exports from northern Iraq, a Northern Oil Company official said.
    "An improvised explosive device was placed close to a network of pipelines at the level of al-Fatiha, west of Kirkuk, causing a big explosion and huge fires that damaged the main pipeline running to Jihan and stopped exports," said Nasir Qasim, a logistics and security official with the (…)