Posted on 03/16/2005 11:01:57 AM PST by BladeLWS
Your post indicate you know less about the oil market than you know of me.
If you are going to sound foolish but don't want it pointed out, go find someone who didn't work in the oil industry for 12 years (Standard Oil and BP for that matter, you know, the guys who BUILT the trans Alaskan pipeline) to post around.
By the way, I used to know most of the legal department at BP North America prior to the merger with AMACO, as well as a few guys up in Alyeska (the consortium that BP has a majority share in that operates the TA Pipeline). What's your friends name that negotiated the contract that violates an act of congress - I might know him...
Yup Military term for red hydrolic fluid.
The vast majority of Alaska North Slope oil DOES NOT go to Japan. Exports of North Slope oil were not allowed between 1977, when the Trans-Alaska Pipeline was completed, and 1996. Since 1996 less than 10% of North Slope oil produced per year has been exported to the Far East. Alaska was producing crude oil before the Trans-Alaska Pipeline was completed and it was during that period when the vast majority of Alaska crude oil was exported to Japan.
I will nail their tail. Freep mail me your email addy, I got a great picture for you from my namesake's buds overseas.
It only took them 5 years. Just long enough to make billionaires out of millionaires.
Someone may already have posted that Hawaii stands to benefit from being in line to import the new Alaskan oil. Hawaii is very dependent on imports.
Also, maybe not posted is that Hawaii is the preferred vacation spot for Alaskans going outside.
The Alaskans may have been talking up drilling in ANWR (even the Democrats are for it in Alaska) all these years on their vacation trips, so the Hawaiians may be more aware of how Alaskans feel about this issue. Just a thought that this may be a little bit of a factor.
And then, the votes in Hawaii have been getting closer to throwing the corrupt Democrats out of office there. Akaka and Inouye may have taken note.
Finally, Inouye is a vet, and may have figured that a vote for ANWR is a vote against putting servicemembers lives on the line for oil.
He's doing great work on the Oil for Food UN scandal, nailing Galloway recently.
Those of us not in MN as you are have to remember he squeaked into office on a wave of outrage over the politization of the Wellstone funeral. And that MN is full of socialists from what I hear.
If he was given a pass to vote for Cantwell's amendment because we had the numbers, then that was just smart politics. We aren't going to get a better Senator out of MN for the near term.
"Dems: Landrieu, Akaka and Inouye voted NO
I can understand Louisiana,... but Hawaii?"
As a long-time Hawaii resident, I can only assume some horse-trading going on here. We will help out the Eskimos for a little help for us poor hapless Hawaiians.
No doubt Akaka and Inouye traded their votes for promised support (Stevens and Murkowski) on the Hawaiian Sovereignty Bill - thereby establishing another dependency group along with the Eskimos, Indians, Blacks, metrosexuals, ad nauseum
OK by me, give the Hawaiians the island of Kahoolawe, the Navy's old bombing site; it's uninhabited - and the rest of the country gets a sane energy program for a change.
It's a no-loser for Inouye and Akaka. People here would vote for them if they were entombed like Lenin. Wait, have you seen these guys lately - They are entombed ! The pubs must have snuck in and turned on their automatic pen signing machine attached to their crypt.
Your story about a native noticing frost bite on your face while you were in Alaska reminded me of a science program I saw recently that talked about native Alaskan tribes having genetically developed certain physiological differences from other humans.
In cold they don't shunt blood away from their hands as most of us do. They keep blood flowing to the hands so they can continue to work and catch food necessary for survival.
Found your local knowledge of Hawaii politics interesting reading.
Off topic, but I'd love to hear your take on your recent gubernatorial election.
That's true. They keep the blood flowing in the extremeties better than those of us from the sun belt do. However, we can keep the blood flowing in the capillaries about as well if we eat a high energy diet, and that means plenty of fat.
Interesting about diet changes helping alter metabolism, too.
The science program also showed a young white woman who had trained herself to endure cold so she could do long distance swimming in cold water. She had developed an insulating layer of body fat all over herself with her training techniques.
Then she swam the Bering straight between Alaska and Russia.
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