Iraq could have largest oil reserves in the world

Times Online ^ | 5/20/08 | Sonia Verma

[Jet Jaguar]

Good timing. I guess.

[Dacula]

So? They probably won’t sell it to us anyway and we won’t make them either.

[fhayek]

I just hope that there aren’t any caribou walking around in Iraq.

[Enchante]

Good thing we took all the oil for ourselves in the usual “blood for oil” gambit because we wouldn’t want to just leave in the ground for the Iraqis to decide how to benefit from it..... Halliburton has been secretly shipping it all to Texas to store it under George Bush’s ranch. /SARCASM

[norcal joe]

It’s all coming together....

[Owen]

There is an inevitability to GW Bush eventually being called a genius.

[Enchante]

"I just hope that there aren’t any caribou walking around in Iraq."

LOL. It's the polar bears they really have to worry about -- all exploration, drilling, and production in Iraq should cease until the EPA can spend a few years "studying" the polar bears. /s

[Argus]

So let’s immediately get all our troops out of that country so it can be turned over to al Qaeda and Iran.

That’s the liberal energy policy. Make sure all our energy is in the hands of our sworn enemies.

[Recon Dad]

Must be a mistake we have already seen “Peak Oil”! /sarc

[rob777]

"They probably won’t sell it to us anyway and we won’t make them either."


It matters little who they sell it to. Simply by putting more oil on the market, they will cause the price of oil to drop.

[From The Deer Stand]

Good thing Iraq isn’t governed by our Congress — they wouldn’t be allowed to drill for it. They’d have to buy the oil from Mexico, Venzuela or some other country.

[trane250]

Freepers, don't believe all that's printed, especially if the source is in the middle east. Those folks have a reputation for embellishment, fantasy and exaggeration.

[rundy]

I say annex them as the 51st state. Then, any attack on them is directly an attack on us and then blow the attackers all away.

[RightWhale]

Sounds familiar, like old news that was reported months ago. What counts is velocity.

[BlazingArizona]

I just hope that there aren’t any caribou walking around in Iraq.

The flat-earth lobby will fly in as many caribou as it takes to stop development.

[GAB-1955]

Who cares about the caribou? What about the Alberta oil sands and the Montana shale? Isn’t it time to exploit them? No polar bears are in Montana, and if Hanna Montana were an endangered species, it wouldn’t affect things much either.

[RightWhale]

Isn’t it time to exploit them?

Any time since 1920 would have been okay. Now would be good. Find somebody with a couple $ billion to spare and go for it.

[politicalwit]

Halliburton has been secretly shipping it all to Texas to store it under George Bush’s ranch.

Enjoyed your /s but ironically the area of Crawford Tx (western part of McCellan County and Coryell County to the east) are areas of Texas where oil has never been discovered.

[GAB-1955]

I’ll chip in $30.