Posted on 08/27/2010 8:42:46 AM PDT by jhpigott
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 ISRAEL ORDERS MASSIVE MILITARY FUEL STOCKS FAR IN EXCESS OF THAT REQUIRED FOR NORMAL OPERATIONS Three weeks ago the US Defence Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) published a notice, as it is legally required to do, announcing that Israel has ordered massive quantities of various fuels suitable for military use, and in the case of the order for JP-8 jet fuel, suitable only for military use.
The massive order is valued at some $2 billion and, as well as the 284 million gallons (1.075 billion litres) of JP-8 jet fuel, the order also includes 60 million gallons (227 million litres) of unleaded gasoline and 100 million gallons (378 million litres) of diesel fuel.
Last week I wrote of how it would not be possible for Israel to mount a unilateral strike against Iran because Israel would require complete connivance and support for such a strike from the US. I explained, as I have in the past, how it would be necessary for the US to supply the massive amounts of fuel need for such a strike. If Israel were to strike Iran, Israel would only require the massive amounts of jet fuel and over a billion litres of jet fuel would be more that enough to do the job in practical terms.
If Israel were planning to strike Iran then that would explain the requirement for the large amounts of JP-8 fuel. However, it does not explain Israels need for such large amounts of gasoline and diesel fuel since an Israeli strike against Iran is unlikely to include any type of ground incursion into Iran for which these fuels would be used. The only conclusion one can draw, if Israel is not planning to actually invade Iran, which, clearly, it could not, is that Israel is planning to use the gasoline and the diesel fuel for some other ground incursion and that can only mean an invasion of Lebanon and possibly the Gaza and West Bank when an attack against Iran is launched.
This massive order begs the question; is the final confrontation imminent? And, if not, then what is all this fuel for?
Time will tell. Jet fuel, if its going to be used in peak condition, doesnt have a very long shelf life.
Decades
Feast of Trumpets, Rosh Hashanah, Sept. 8.
Yom Kippur, Sept. 17.
Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot), Sept. 22-29.
I have eight-year old diesel fuel that runs in my Ford 6.9 just fine. Can’t tell the difference.
Rosh Hashanah is a new moon; Sukkot starts on a full moon.
Exactly.
A heads up doesn’t deter the usual suspects, it only helps them.
“Rosh Hashanah is a new moon; Sukkot starts on a full moon.”
I understand that, but each year the new moon is not on the same day. Rosh Hoshana is celebrated during 48 hours for that reason isn’t it? Because no one knows axactly when the new moon will be?
“I have eight-year old diesel fuel that runs in my Ford 6.9 just fine. Cant tell the difference.”
You wouldn’t be running a long haul truck very long with that fuel. I used to own a trucking company. Oh, and I wouldn’t run that Ford to long with it either.
From Wikipedia (Tishri 1 is Sept. 8 this year):
Since the time of the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE and the time of Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai, normative Jewish law appears to be that Rosh Hashanah is to be celebrated for two days, due to the difficulty of determining the date of the new moon. Nonetheless, there is some evidence that Rosh Hashanah was celebrated on a single day in Israel as late as the thirteenth century CE. Orthodox, and Conservative Judaism now generally observe Rosh Hashanah for the first two days of Tishrei, even in Israel where all other Jewish holidays dated from the new moon last only one day. The two days of Rosh Hashanah are said to constitute “Yoma Arichtah” (Aramaic: “one long day”). The observance of a second day is a later addition and does not follow from the literal reading of Leviticus. In Reform Judaism, some communities only observe the first day of Rosh Hashanah, while others observe two days. Karaite Jews, who do not recognize Rabbinic Jewish oral law and rely on their own understanding of the Bible, observe only one day on the first of Tishrei, since the second day is not mentioned in the Torah.
Runs fine. Don't know if the mechanical fuel injection is less picky.
Gasoline I don't keep more than a year without stabilizer.
I understand that it runs fine but engine life is going to be comprimised. Even on the boats we owned, the fuel had to be scrubbed regularly if not used for periods of time. Ask any long haul truckin company or deisel boat owners.
“there is some evidence that Rosh Hashanah was celebrated on a single day in Israel as late as the thirteenth century CE”
But they had lookouts to announce the actual time of the New Moon.
I have Pri-D conditioner but there has been no reason to use it. Also no sign of bacterial growth. So what’s the problem? I do keep an extra fuel filter but again has been no reason to change it early. There is cetane conditioner in the fuel.
Brackdown of the lubrication leading to ring and cylinder wall damage.
All the furor down in NYC over the GZM is probably a grand distraction for the press.
New moon is 10:30 GMT on September 8. That’s 13:30 Jerusalem time.
It takes tons of fuel to reach the White House.
If you run across some good documentation of this happening I’d be interested in seeing it. Seems pretty unlikely to me since the crankcase oil has the primary role in lubricating the cylinder wall.
I mean Israel, Saudi Arabia and probably Egypt. The Saudis are probably calling the shots as far as timing for any meeting goes.
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