Posted by
Farmer's Wife on Saturday, May 17, 2008 10:22:01 PM
I know this is a question that I would like to have answered. In pursuit of answers I ran across something that I think is worth you time to read, listen to and investigate along with me. A man named Lindsey Williams is the author of a book named, The Energy Non-Crisis. In it he has written an amazing story of what he learned while serving as chaplain for the oil camps along the Alaskan Pipeline. I have no reason to believe him other than the facts and names he gives and the reasons he gives for why we cannot have the oil that is in Alaska and what it would mean for this country if we did.
I googled his name, Lindsy Williams and came upon a U Tube link to an eight part video presentation given by Mr. Williams and I intend to get his book as soon as I can. I want to find out more and so should we all. I have long thought that there was a whole lot more to the oil crisis than we were being told and now I am more convinced than ever.
5/19/09
to foreign oil producing countries? These countries buy much of American debt along with China and others.
Now look at the dollars these countries are realizing from the sale of their oil in relation to today's prices and then look at the dollars being realized by oil companies. Even the mind boggling amounts these two entities are realizing does not account for all the dollars being used to purchase oil by all the countries buying oil. It would seem that someone standing between the sources of oil and the companies who buy it and turn it into usable fuels and they would be making money hand over fist.
Do we know if Exxon or any other oil company buys crude oil directly from the producing source or is there some sort of broker in between them? If such a broker exists, would that not explain why after numerous investigation by the US government that they have found no egregious wrong doing by the oil companies?
I believe it costs about $5/barrel to bring oil out of the ground in most oil producing countries. They do not refine it and it costs them very little to transport the crude to oil tankers transporting it to their customers refineries.
What would happen if there were an enemy of the USA who owned a very large oil supply and decided to bypass the broker between producers and suppliers and flood the market to China and other anti-American countries with cheaper oil than whatever the current market is?
I don't know the answers to these questions. They are just something I wonder about.
Iran looks to tap key oil field with homegrown crews
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080511/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_oil_and_sanctions
5/22/08 Another interesting link: http://www.pushhamburger.com/hidden.htm