Posted on 09/14/2019 7:02:21 AM PDT by LRoggy
(Moderator, if I can't excerpt the BBC, please note)
Drone attacks have set alight two major oil facilities run by the state-owned company Aramco in Saudi Arabia, state media say.
Footage showed a huge blaze at Abqaiq, site of Aramco's largest oil processing plant, while a second drone attack started fires in the Khurais oilfield.
The fires are now under control at both facilities, state media said.
A spokesman for the Iran-aligned Houthi group in Yemen said it had deployed 10 drones in the attacks.
The military spokesman, Yahya Sarea, told al-Masirah TV, which is owned by the Houthi movement and is based in Beirut, that further attacks could be expected in the future.
He said Saturday's attack was one of the biggest operations the Houthi forces had undertaken inside Saudi Arabia and was carried out in "co-operation with the honourable people inside the kingdom".
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>>Gas prices will be up, I guess<<
But...I thought we are now “energy independent”??? Why should our gas prices be affected by a change in Saudi capacity?
Because oil is a commodity used all over the world.
Supply goes down, demand goes up, price goes up.
With adequate carbon-offset provisions, of course. Unless unicorn farts are not hydrocarbons. AOC would know.
You own a storage tank in southern California. It has 500,000 gallons of gasoline.
You can truck that gas to 500 gas stations at, say, $2.50/gallon, or you can take it to the Chinese operated port of Long Beach, and load it on to a Shanghai bound tanker for $3.00/gal. That's a cool $250,000 for less effort.
Which would you do?
Now there are 500 gas stations that still need gas, they wanted to pay $2.50/gal, but the world shortage has made the price to beat $3.00/gal.
They must have gas to stay in business so they have to pay $3.00, they still have to turn a profit to stay in business, so they have to raise the pump price to cover the higher wholesale price.
Drill, drill, drill. The filthy Chinese Communists are seeking to buy influence in the GCC and throw out the West. Already happening in the UAE, replacing Filipinos, Indians and others with Chinese. Hence the huge port the ChiComs are building in Pakistan
We’d love to have you. They can all move to Quebec or Newfoundland...
Added to my new tagline...
One has to love those peace loving muzzies.
“Time for the Saudi coalition to wipe out Yemeni terrorists.”
This will likely get a rise out of the Saudis.
But who will get the contract?
Need to figure out the source of the drone. This will crash the market.
Who the hell cares? Let them have fun killing each other.
guess all their refining will need to be done in the US
we can sell them some drones no doubt
[Gas prices will be up, I guess]
Yeah, I should have filled up last night. Got just under 3/4 of a tank. Maybe only slightly more than half (that needle bounces around LOL).
Saudi Arabia has been making nice with Israel recently.
Gots to speculate if the Israeli Air Force will help the House of Saud in the coming Iranian backed Houthi beat down?
I SEE THAT I ADDED A REAL CURSE WORD IN ITS ENTIRETY IN THAT LAST POST AND HAVE ASKED THE POST TO BE PULLED.
DAMMIT.
You need to up your valium.
When, when, WHEN? Is somebody going to give Iran the swift kick in the dickbag they deserve? We still owe them for the hostages, along with the American blood spilled by their IEP’s in Iraq, and countless other places they’ve killed our best and brightest?
They are like the schoolyard bully that sorely needs a beat-down.
I’m already at max on klonopin!!!!
I already asked for the thread to be taken down.
I NEVER post REAL curses!
Slipped by me.
Apologies.
Understand your position. I never mer a muzzie I trusted...spent 17 in the ME...KTA
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