PASSING OF A PERFIDIOUS PRINCE

New York Post ^ | 8/3/2005 | New York Post Editorial Staff

[ElCapusto]

King Fahd, Saudi Arabia's ruler in nameonly for the past decade, was buried yesterday in an unmarked grave, according to tradition, following his death Monday. His half-brother, Crown Prince Abdullah, who has run the country since Fahd's debilitating stroke in 1995, quickly succeeded him.

All of which means there should be little in the way of political change in Riyadh — a mixed outcome, to be sure.

[ElCapusto]

...the royals prefer to play the oil card, trusting that the West will not endanger its ties to the guardians of one-fourth of the world's petroleum reserves.

There was a time when America produced all its oil needs. If only we could get back to those days.

[Meldrim]

Thermaldepolymerization. TDP. Oil.

[expatpat]

That's very cryptic. Are you suggesting widespread recycling of waste plastics into oil?

[ElCapusto]

Hardly no more cryptic than wishing for the days when our manufacturing prowess was the envy of the world. There were very few countries that didn't have Packards or Cadillacs.

I'm suggesting that we drill more offshore and even in the 'pristine' Arctic wilderness.

Recycling, excepting bullcrap, is ridiculous.

[Meldrim]

I am suggesting that this technology may make a huge number of organic waste sources into potential oil/fuel. Currently, the largest obstacle seems to be in refining the process and segregating waste flows. Sewerage may someday become a valuable commodity.