Yea, But Oil Is Still Going To Be $100 a Barrell
LGF calls this well funded propaganda:
CALGARY ” With oil prices bent on hitting US$100 a barrel as soon as next week, and energy consumers around the world increasingly fretting about where the next oil supplies will come from, cloistered Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil producer, is taking an unusual step: borrowing a page from marketing-savvy Western organizations and putting on a charm offensive on a grand scale.
The occasion is the Third OPEC Summit, hosted by the Kingdom’s oil minister, Ali Al-Naimi, in Riyadh next week. The week-long event culminates with a meeting of the heads of state of OPEC’s 13 member countries on Nov. 17 and 18. (The first summit was held in Algeria in 1975 and the second was hosted by Venezuela in 2000).
Rather than keeping usually arcane discussions about world oil supplies, prices and energy policies behind the scenes, organizers are switching on the spotlight.
They even recruited the global public relations firm, Hill & Knowlton, to invite media from around the world. Hundreds of journalists from Canada, the U.S., Brazil, China, India, South Africa and Mexico are converging in Saudi Arabia for the event. They have been promised unprecedented access to OPEC’s decision-makers, oil industry executives, and even “familiarization tours” of Saudi Arabia’s historically off-limits oil installations.
“This meeting looks like it’s a showcase,” said Bob Skinner, a former director of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and an expert on the global oil industry who now works in Calgary. “It’s to be commended. The King probably wants to say, ‘We are not a bunch of jihadis, Al-Qaeda apologists. We are open.’
November 12, 2007 - 08:40 AM on November 12th, 2007
Sunday’s Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel had an article on making Ethanol from Whey, a byproduct of making cheese. It’s a win-win for small and struggling cheese plants that have trouble getting rid of their whey.
November 12, 2007 - 08:58 AM on November 12th, 2007
We should not only use entinol but we should drill in the ANWR and tell the SIERRA CLUB and GREENPEACE to GO TAKE A HIKE lets just feed them eco-wussies to the polar bears killer whales and skuas
November 12, 2007 - 10:41 AM on November 12th, 2007
No Ethanol. I used to support it, but when I looked into it I discovered it to be a losing proposition.
Yes, we need to drill…not only in ANWR but in the Gulf off Florida, as China is.
We need to put priority on updating/building new refineries.
Lastly, we need about 20-25 nuclear power plants built nationwide.
This will give us time to perfect a new energy resource (such as hydrogen), IF we place it as priority.
November 12, 2007 - 10:42 AM on November 12th, 2007
3.
I meant no CORN ethanol btw, as there are other sources that we may be able to utilize (such as hemp).
November 12, 2007 - 10:55 AM on November 12th, 2007
4, no hemp. Leave the Pot Politics out of this. You know damned well that the Pot heads only want their buzz legalized and will go to any extreme to do it.
3, I’ve long believed we need to use Alcohol for fuel instead of Gasoline. It is more than environment and economics. How is oil created? How is alcohol created? Which can man manufacture in sufficient quantities?