Re: [Vo]: Oil field crises in Saudi Arabia and Iran

[Stephen A. Lawrence]

Jed Rothwell wrote:


The Iranians are destroying their own oil fields 
without help from us. Their fields are in such poor shape from 
mismanagement and bad technology that the country will soon not be able 
to produce enough for its own domestic consumption.

Could this provide a possible explanation for why Iran may actually be 
interested in a civilian nuclear power generation capability?

I've read a number of times that Iranian claims that they want nuclear 
power to generate electricity doesn't pass the "laugh test".  Well, if 
their oils is really running out that fast, maybe the ones who said that 
(mostly American officials, IIRC) were just trying to laugh off the 
possibility that Iran really _does_ want nuclear energy for something 
besides building bombs.