Posted on 06/27/2007 7:14:43 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
We can relax. They were Citgo stations.
...smooth move, x-lax.
Looks like Iran just might be folding up like a cheap suitcase.
Holy smokes! Iran imports 40% of its gasoline? To me, that is quite a revelation.
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"Guns, fireworks, tanks, [President] Ahmadinejad should be killed," chanted angry youths, throwing stones at police.
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Now that is a nice progression.....
‘Holy smokes! Iran imports 40% of its gasoline? To me, that is quite a revelation.’
Yep - they’ve got barrels of crude on every corner, but they’re too dumb and disorganised to build any refineries to turn it into petrol or diesel! :D
Only 100 liters per month. This is heaven. Maybe next year that can be reduced to 50 liters and then to 10 and then to 0. This is potentially even better than 72 virgins.
Some enterprising freedom fighters might be able to reduce that to say 10% or less.
I commented to my wife last night it is hillarious that a country with NO EPA and NO ENVIRONMENTALISTS to stifle a country’s growth chooses to build numerous Nuclear plants but won’t build its own refineries to refine its own oil.
Agreed. It would be sweetly ironic if Iran's primary export of Terrorists suddenly turned on Iran's Mad Mullahs and started wreaking havoc & mayhem on their own country.
Outside of true, freedom-loving Iranians, no big loss...
We could solve this nuclear thing in ten minutes. Blockade their ports, aim at their refinery, and tell them: “Nukes or gas. Your choice.”
Strange how hard it is to build an oil refinery, and how easy it is to build thousands of turbomolecular pumps and gas centrifuges.
Iranians burn a gas station during a protest against gas-rationing in Tehran, Iran on early Wednesday June, 27, 2007. Angry Iranians attacked several gas stations in protest after the government suddenly began long-threatened fuel rationing, while many others rushed to fill their tanks. The Oil Ministry announced the start of rationing Tuesday night only three hours before it was due to begin at midnight. (AP photo)
Iranians burn a gas station and nearby cars during a protest against gas-rationing, in northwest Tehran June 26, 2007. Angry Iranians set fire to a Tehran petrol station and chanted anti-government slogans in a northwest area of the capital on Tuesday in protest against fuel rationing introduced in OPEC's number two oil producer. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi (IRAN)
An Iranian man walks past a damaged petrol station in the northwest of Tehran. Angry demonstrators torched petrol stations and long queues formed at heavily-guarded fuel pumps after oil-rich Iran announced the start of fuel rationing, triggering nationwide protests.(AFP/Behrouz Mehri)
A sign that someone is not spending enough time on the Internet and FreeRepublic. Budgeting more time for FR, say, an additional two hours every day would supply this deficit for the time being.
Iran fuel rations spark anger, pump stations burn
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(Adds report on more pump stations torched, quotes, details)
By Fredrik Dahl
TEHRAN, June 27 (Reuters) - Angry Iranian motorists queued for gasoline for hours on Wednesday after the world's fourth-largest oil exporter imposed fuel rationing, sparking chaotic scenes and the torching of at least two pump stations.
One Iranian news agency, Fars, said 12 gasoline stations were set ablaze in Tehran after the government's announcement late on Tuesday, but only two could be independently confirmed.
Some drivers had scuffled while waiting to fill up their tanks before the rationing started at midnight. Others openly criticised President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government, which came to power vowing to share out Iran's oil wealth more fairly.
"We are swimming in oil and all they do is just put pressure on people," said taxi driver Hasan Mohammadi.
Thanks for the photos......very lovely.....
“There was violence in nine areas of Tehran as ANGRY YOUTHS attacked petrol stations,...”
Shades of two summers ago in France! There’s “angry youths” in Teheran, too? Those guys get around, don’t they?
Is that why the US also imports gasoline and diesel?
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