RUSSIA'S PRESENT TO AMERICA ON INDEPENDENCE DAY

Pravda ^ | 2002-07-03 | Vasily Bubnov

[Texaggie79]

Right on the eve of Independence Day, a rather unexpected event has occured: Russian companies started direct oil supplies to the USA. Very few people believed that it would happen indeed.

Beginning of the oil supplies is very important from both political and economic points of view. First, Washington demonstrates its interest in a close partnership with Russia not only fixed in documents, but in practice first of all. Russia’s Astro Lupus oil tanker will be met by US Deputy Energy Minister Michael Smith and US Congress members Nicolas Lampson and Ken Bentsen. This fact demonstrates the importance of the deliveries.

It is no secret that the USA wants to reduce the dependence of the US economy on oil import from Mideast countries. Russian oil is an alternative in this case. As of now, it is difficult to say to what extent the oil deliveries will be economically justified. The matter of the fact is that the first tanker with Russian oil has covered a rather long way: originally, the oil was loaded onto the tanker in the port of Novorossiisk, then by the Black, Aegean, and Mediterranean seas, it was delivered to Houston. On the other hand, the route from the Persian Gulf is also rather long.

President of YUKOS, a Russian company that performs oil deliveries to the USA, Mikhail Khodorkovsky announced recently the intention to make oil supplies economically rational, one barrel of Russian oil is to cost $25 at least. It is to be taken into consideration that Russian oil is of a lower quality than the Mideast oil. And, consequently, its price on the world markets is much lower than $25.

On the other hand, if the project continues, Mideast countries will have no opportunity to threaten the USA with the cessation of oil supplies. Therefore, Washington is getting more chances for therealization of its Mideast policy, and the USA appreciates this fact very much.

The beginning of the oil supplies is also very important for Russia’s economy as well. If they become regular, Moscow can look at OPEC from a considerable distance. OPEC, as is known, is not remarkable for its unity of opinions; the increase of quotas for oil sales has been discussed for several months already.

And what is more, unlike the Middle East, Russia has no reason to blackmail the USA with cessation of oil supplies, and no reasons are likely to appear in the future.

On the whole, time will tell to what extent the project turns out to be economically justified. This is just the first shipment of oil from Russia.

Vasily Bubnov
PRAVDA.Ru

[GraniteStateConservative]

Bush should win the Nobel Peace Prize just for this. If the Saudis, et al. all have to eat sand because they can't afford food, then they won't have much energy to fly planes into towers and bomb buildings, buses, etc.

This will do more for peace than most anything.

[MJY1288]

This is great news, When we end all dealings with the Arabs and they go broke, those terrorist b**tards will kill each other and return to the 9th century where they belong.

Next step.... IRAQ

[redhead]

I agree. This is great news.

[Southack]

[redhead]

How long do you think it will be before (if?) the major news outlets carry this news?

[hchutch]

This is BIG news.

See you around, OPEC!

[swarthyguy]

Excellent. Perhaps a Trans_siberian Alaskan pipeline should be in the works?

[Huck]

You sure that Peace Prize shouldn't go to Condi Rice ? ;-)

[Hugin]

Remember how all those prestitutes mocked Bush when he first met with Putin and said he had looked into his soul and saw a man he could trust? How they all said he was a gullible rube being fooled by the ex-KGB apparatchick? I do. I also remember Putin's response to Bush's critics; "He sees more clearly and thinks more deeply than they do".

[WyldKard]

Hmmm..it's great news, but it's my understanding that most of the Mid East Oil is bought by Europe. Which is just one factor in their behavior regarding the situation with the terrorists, I'm sure...

[wingnuts'nbolts]

This is a major Bush accomplishment and should be recognized for it's amazing implimentation. Look out Saudis, we may render you redundant!

[Mo1]

Right on the eve of Independence Day, a rather unexpected event has occured: Russian companies started direct oil supplies to the USA

This is Good News for sure ..

[Mudboy Slim]

"And what is more, unlike the Middle East, Russia has no reason to blackmail the USA with cessation of oil supplies, and no reasons are likely to appear in the future."

What's amazing about this statement is not only its very appearance in the Pravda just over a decade from the fall of the Berlin Wallm and the end of the Cold War, but evenmoreso that this statement is inarguably TRUE!!

FReegards...MUD

[GraniteStateConservative]

You know me, I think she deserves any accolade available.

[elbucko]

Bush should win the Nobel Peace Prize just for this.

Bush, maybe. Ronald Reagan, definitely!

As a nineteen year old during the late 60's, inside a radar van on the West German border, watching the radar sweep into the Warsaw Pact territories, this is all just such a miracle to me.

Too bad Bill Clinton enabled Bin Laden to emerge as the next "Evil Empire" we have to deal with.

[Grampa Dave]

CANDID PHOTO OF DA$$HOLE hearing this news of direct sales of Russian oil to America. Now his link of endless bloody petro $'s from the Opecker Princes and the Envirals Nazis from Hell is at risk!

[denydenydeny]

This story should be compulsory reading for every idiot liberal who insists that "Bush won't do anything against his buddies in Saudi Arabia."

[Clara Lou]

Yes, I remember those smug, haughty prestitutes.

And now, this week, we have Russian oil on its way and Bush saying "no" to the ICC. What a week!

[KC_Conspirator]

You are probably right about this. Now if we can just open up ANWR, then the Saudi's might not have enough money to fund Al Queda, homocide bombers, and radical, terrorist, wahhabist madrasses.