[the invisib1e hand]

strikes << unions << communist idealology << energy market hegemony...

once again, friends, your problem isn't OPEC.

[rdl6989]

Of course this would happen now. I’m going on vacation this week, it never fails.

[Eric]

This incident will just be another reason for the oil speculating loonies to raise the futures price again. We shoot at Iranian boats, price goes up. Oil refinery fire, price goes up. Arab sheik has constipation, price goes up. Oil supply goes down, price goes up. Oil supply goes up, price goes up.

The answer ISN'T raising taxes on the oil companies, Barak Hussein Obama.

[blam]

Emergency Fuel Tankers Set Sail From Europe (To UK)

[anglian]

Latest:
• Grangemouth oil refinery is shutdown.
• The Forties Pipeline is shutdown
• Over 60 North Sea oil and gas fields are shutdown.
• About 700,000 bpd oil production lost costing £40 million / day @ $110 per barrel
• About 70 million cubic meters natural gas production lost per day costing £42 million / day @ 60 p / therm
• BP, Shell, Exxon-Mobil, BG Group, Conoco-Philips, Chevron-Texaco, Total, Marathon, Tallisman, Nexen, Venture, Dana and many more companies affected
• Global energy prices rise
http://europe.theoildrum.com/

[RightWhale]

This might actually be the first thread on this subject. Should have been happening on Friday but there was near total silence.

[fella]

You can always count on the unions to do things to help the little people. You know, the little hard working guys like the union leaders and their goons and their accountants and the servants at their mansions and ..........