RUSSIA'S PRESENT TO AMERICA ON INDEPENDENCE DAY

Pravda ^ | 2002-07-03 | Vasily Bubnov

[BohDaThone]

This is somewhat misleading.

1) We produce about 2.5 million bbls/day of "natural gas Liquids," which refine like oil

2) The "petroleum imports" does not adjust for about 1 million bbls/day of "exports" -- mostly refined products, or oil being transshipped.

3) In particular years, it may not adjust for whether stocks are being built up or drawn down.

When you do the reasonable adjustments above, our current dependence is about 51%, with a high of 46% or so back in the 70's, and a low of 28-30% around 1985.


Also, note that what really counts is PRODUCTION, not exactly where it comes from. No embargo will work directly -- you can always but from somewhere else, at a higher price. It is the drop in production that hurts.

Thus -- More russian oil is good news, whether or not they sell it directly to us. As is Peruvian oil, New Guinean Oil, etc. All of which are coming -- everywhere but Alaska!! LOL

[RightOnline]

Re: #6: FNC covered it in detail last evening.

It's a shame that the crude isn't equal in quality to the Saudi oil, but so be it. Right about now, ANY source that isn't in the Middle East is desireable........and even if it costs more.

[Agamemnon]

I find it very hard to link Darwin with Marx and Engels.

Marx had no trouble making the link between his social/political Darwinism and "biological" Darwinism. So little trouble in fact that he specifically wrote Darwin and asked that he might dedicate his later editions of "Das Kapital" to Darwin.

But for the fact that Darwin's wife impressed it upon him to distance himself from what she termed to be "so un-Christian a book," I suspect that linkage might be more obvious to more people today.

Darwinism, like communism, is unraveling before our very eyes. It is a failed set of premises unsupported by scientific fact. When adherents encounter evidences in nature contrary to the philosophy, instead of leaving the philosphy behind, many darwinists --social and biological--simply chose to ignore the science that doesn't fit their "model". Kinda the way communists ignored the principles of free-market capitalism (and that, at their certain peril).

Before too long I suspect that as the unsubstantive philosphy that it is, darwinism, too, shall pass into meaninglessness even as have other philosophies based on Darwin's premises (e.g., nazism borne of nietzism born of darwinism). The linkage is quite clear.

[aShepard]

Hydrogen. With enough energy you can synthesis most any fuel you need, but hydrogen is very promising.

Not a chemist, but my understanding is that it takes as much energy to split and gather the hydrogen atoms, as the burning of hydrogen emits.

So the net energy gain is zero, all you've done is to create a portable energy source, created from the electrical generating plants.