This sounds like a coherent analysis and argument to me:
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Dr Salameh, director of the UK-based Oil Market Consultancy Service, and an
authority on Iraq's oil, said it is the only one of the world's biggest
producing countries with enough reserves substantially to increase its flow.
Production in eight of the others -- the US, Canada, Iran, Indonesia, Russia,
Britain, Norway and Mexico -- has peaked, he says, while China and Saudia
Arabia, the remaining two, are nearing the point at of decline. Before the war,
Saddam Hussein's regime pumped some 3.5 million barrels of oil a day, but this
had now fallen to just two million barrels.
Dr Salameh told the all-party parliamentary group on peak oil last month that
Iraq had offered the United States a deal, three years before the war, that
would have opened up 10 new giant oil fields on "generous" terms in return for
the lifting of sanctions. "This would certainly have prevented the steep rise
of the oil price," he said. "But the US had a different idea. It planned to
occupy Iraq and annex its oil."
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The neocon invasion of Iraq reduced the ability of the United States and the
world to ease the effects of the peak oil crunch: "Before the war, Saddam
Hussein's regime pumped some 3.5 million barrels of oil a day, but this had now
fallen to just two million barrels."
I predicted this outcome long before the war started. It's a no-brainer --
it's difficult to pump oil from a politically unstable nation which is
resisting a disastrous and destructive foreign occupation. Bush, Cheney and
their neocon puppet masters completely screwed up. The American oil industry
as a whole was never enthusiastic about the Iraq War, and is even much less
enthusiastic about an Iran War. Only the Israeli government, the Israel lobby,
neoconservatives and Christian Zionists are agitating for an American attack on
Iran -- an action which would make the current oil crisis much worse and no
doubt shatter the American economy to smithereens.
Most of the predictions about the coming peak oil squeeze in the article are on
the mark, in my opinion.
Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- In
political-research@yahoogroups.com, Sean McBride
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Iraq War May Have
> Increased Energy Costs Worldwide by a Staggering $6 Trillion
....... a strangely incoherent article. The Iraq War has
increased the price of oil, or peak oil has? It is obvious
now that it is the latter.
Alan
