Thursday, March 01, 2007
Now is the time for concern: Global Market Dip in the Midst of a Grumbling World War with Tyrant at the Helm of World Superpower. Headline from 1935?
Two other things this week slipped through the cracks.
Monday Feb 26, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez announced the nationalization of oil production in the country by May 1. The country will acquire 60% of controling shares of four major oil fields and assume majority control from BP, Mobil Chevron, and Conoco Phillips, among others. This may expose many oil-crutched, modernized parts of the world to Chavez's whimsy.
Tuesday, Feb 27, The Iraqi government(?) approved an accord distributing the revenues of oil production in that country equally among its population based on regionas density and allowing for regional companies to enter into contracts with foriegn producers to explore and develop new fields.
For the past year, the media has been uncovering issues with current census practices and death counts in Iraq. How accurately can this money be distributed? How much of this occupation is a stabilization mission until oil can flow unimpeded out of that country and into this one?
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Friday, February 23, 2007
Gross neglect all the way around
In August 2006, British Petroleum shut down operations of the Alaska Pipeline due to numerous system failures and physical deterioration of the pipe itself. This event did not come as a surprise. Documentation between BP and the State of Alaska and Federal EPA authorities, as well as whistle blowers from inside BP, can be exhaustively viewed at www.alaskaforum.org.
The following is a partial excerpt from a Rueters story on Feb 22. Be certain that this "news brief" is only a small window into the gross neglect and disrepair that the nation's utilities and energy infastructure have been subjected to at the profit of holding companies et al.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Thursday announced it has placed the biggest nuclear power plant in the United States, the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in Arizona, under a tighter watch because of a safety violation.
"Following testing failures on July 25 and September 22, an NRC special inspection identified problems in an electrical relay that rendered the emergency diesel generator nonfunctional for approximately 18 days during 2006," the NRC said.
McDonald said APS is "committed to returning Palo Verde to its previous level of excellence. Our job is to safely generate electricity and improve performance at the plant and to work with the regulators."
In 2004, the NRC found that a pipe used to flood reactors with water in case of an emergency had been dry for years.
The following is a partial excerpt from a Rueters story on Feb 22. Be certain that this "news brief" is only a small window into the gross neglect and disrepair that the nation's utilities and energy infastructure have been subjected to at the profit of holding companies et al.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Thursday announced it has placed the biggest nuclear power plant in the United States, the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in Arizona, under a tighter watch because of a safety violation.
"Following testing failures on July 25 and September 22, an NRC special inspection identified problems in an electrical relay that rendered the emergency diesel generator nonfunctional for approximately 18 days during 2006," the NRC said.
McDonald said APS is "committed to returning Palo Verde to its previous level of excellence. Our job is to safely generate electricity and improve performance at the plant and to work with the regulators."
In 2004, the NRC found that a pipe used to flood reactors with water in case of an emergency had been dry for years.
Sunday, February 18, 2007
walking the streets
The PRAY FOR OIL project objective is simple: twist a common imperative seen daily on vehicles and road signs to expose the three connective qualities found in an American demographic that is assuming about its religious conventions, drives fuel wanton vehicles, and supports a worldwide military campaign to ensure their continued situational privilege to do so.
3066 Labs is a proprietary media and design organisation concentrating its resources to the production and placement of the "PRAY FOR OIL" message into the public view. Activity in 2006 consisted of a sticker campaign delivered directly to the pumps and an Election Week campaign sign blitz in the Dayton OH market.
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Conservatives, please...unite.
Pray For Oil
Join hands with me now, as we pray to the Lord Almighty for deliverance. Or deliveries, as it were. Let the good works, the fine brown trucks of UPS continue to flourish across this glorious land which you have given us. Spare us from the distasteful inconveniences of the sciences, whose conclusions embrace the fallen.
Our brethren, who art in Amman, honoured are thy contracts. Lord provide unto them captured sunlight, the guise of dead life. Give us our texas tea, and forgive those whom we crush, as we forgive them for our trespasses. Lead us not, and deliver us from reason.
Dear Biblical Scholars: Did the bible ever cover the fiscal signs of the apocalypse?
Posted by Ross on 10/26 at 04:56 PM in Partisan Politics
PRAY!!!! THE END IS NEAR! SPREAD THE WORD FRIENDS
click on image. then print file onto sticker paper for an instant "pray for oil" bumper sticker!
you can also use the graphics to start your own wheatpasted campaign
you can also use the graphics to start your own wheatpasted campaign
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