They want the oil in Iraq, and by inference, they want the oil in Iran. North Korea has no oil, so it is not in this particular equation. Syria has very little oil so it is a second tier country in this scheme of things, but is an ally of Iran and has occupied Lebanon and has been accused of letting/sending suicide bombers into Iraq.
Perhaps the geopolitical chessboard ‘great game’ is to deprive China of the oil, as a way to prevent their rise to appose the Americans. And surrounding Russia with missiles is another part of the plan, as Russia seems to have found a way to find oil and gas using a different geology theory than the west uses. They have been finding oil where no one expected to find it, using their alternative methods, hidden from the west by the cold war stand off, but in reality, the western oil companies did not really want to consider anything new in the geology theories, after all, reputations were at stake. So Russian cannot be blackmailed by cutting off access to oil, because they have all they need and can export as well, so their economy is beginning to boom, just like China’s.
I read an article about energy resources and the author attended a conference of bankers, CEO’s and captains of industry. He reported that not once was ‘Peak Oil’ mentioned. And when he asked a few bankers, what did they think about peak oil, most of them did not even know what it was. You can bet your bottom dollar though, that the oil companies do know all about it, in intimate detail.
It was predicted that peak oil would occur around 1995/2000, but the price hike from the OPEC countries in the 70’s pushed that estimate a further few years into the future. Some estimates put the peak oil time at 2007/2010, and others say 2020. Whatever the true date, it is certain to come and the civilization built on cheap oil will no longer be viable.
The other ‘alternative energies’ thoroughly investigated and detailed in the article showed that the highest percent of price to power ratio would be about 3% or with some innovative scientific breakthrough maybe 5%. Let’s suppose that it could be 10%.
The ratio for oil is 30%. Nothing else comes even close.
The shale oil, often cited as part of the American reserves, which would be profitable if the world price of oil rose high enough, overlooks the fact that it would cost $1 to get 50 cents of oil, a very negative ratio, so nobody would do it.
No new oil refineries have been built for 30 years and many have been closed down - doesn’t that tell you something about how the oil companies are viewing the available reserves. There is also speculation that there has been some skulduggery with the estimates of reserves of oil under the ground in Saudi Arabia over the years.
Consequences
So what are the consequences of peak oil? Every item of food, everything that people buy in the supermarkets and the city malls, is delivered by truck. Delivered across America, Europe, and Asian countries - to every large city around the world. Forget container ships and rail, which also use oil, because at the end of the trip, the only way is by truck. If the oil goes to $200 a barrel, the trucks will probably still run, But the price of goods and food will skyrocket and if the oil gets scarce and you have to queue up at the gas station for hours to get a rationed amount of fuel for your SUV, what do you think the average citizen will think of their governments then? Now do you see why they have built those Halliburton holiday camps?
A million or more hungry people, with jobs going down the toilet every day, will be a big problem for their safety. A few dissidents marching on Washington are hardly going to cause any trouble for the Whitehouse, surrounded by police, armed FBI agents and the soldiers that were moved to the District of Columbia from Florida some months ago.
And the sub prime fiasco engineered by Alan Greenspan lowering the interest rates to an astonishing 1% leading to the explosion in crazy, lending – was this fiscally sound, madness, or another facet of the underlying plan? A plan which might be to bankrupt the American economy, thereby causing a financial global recession/depression which would bring the world economy to its knees, with the inevitable result that many more millions would suffer the consequences and die of starvation.
Surreal and horrific as it might seem, the depleted uranium and all the rest, will cause many illnesses and deaths not only of Iraqis and the soon to be attack on Iran, but the US soldiers are exposed to this horror as well. If you are ill from radiation poisoning, hungry because the artificial food chain has broken down, you will not be in any state to appose marshal law, written into that executive order 51.
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