Originally posted by The Vagabond
Until reading this thread, I was unaware that the pipeline through Afghanistan was intended to sell oil to China. China has increased oil consumption
40% in the past year, contributing to rising oil prices
- LMAO.
The biggest factor in rising oil prices is a tragic mess of a war in the ME.
The instability this war has caused is the problem, not China (or India for that matter they are consuming ever greater amounts of oil too).
......oh and the possibility that we may actually have finally peaked in global oil production.
and the move towards oil being priced in euros,
- Yeah Iraq moved to the euro just before the war, the US doesn't seem to like countries freely choosing to do that, huh?
as Americas share of world oil consumption is being relatively decreased by this Chinese increase.
- China is developing, so is India, there are limited resources. This is nothing to do with the USA in a deliberate sense. It's just inevitable
given rising consumption and a limited availability.
We either go without, start to economise for real, develop new technologies or we destroy ourselves fighting each other over these finite
resources.
You can't exactly say this environmental/ecology stuff is news to anyone now, can you?
Still, on the other hand you could just carry on laughing at the 'tree huggers' and feeling somehow manly with a 9mpg SUV......and not in the least
but responsible for the mess that is developing. I wonder how sissy compact cars etc will be when gas goes over $10/gallon and keeps going up and up
and up?
In addition to this, other sources I have read suggest that the installation of an opium-tollerant government in Afghanistan has opened up a
multi-billion dollar industry for the processing of Afghan poppies into Chinese Heroine. (I'll have to confirm this somehow before its anything to
base a theory on).
- What?! The USA invades Afghanistan, is instrumental in recreating the fuedal war-lord system there with little law or order and sees destitute and
truely dirt-poor farmers (yet again) growing poppies for heroine production and it's all to do with China?!
Wow, how does that one work?
Now who has an interest in accomplishing all of the following things:
1. Removing "rogue" or idealistic (theocratic) governments.
- well it's the USA charging about the globe doing that kind of thing, ask 'Dub-ya'.
2. Consolidating smaller nations into puppets and sattelites of larger nations.
- 'Dub-ya' again......once a suitable vassel state has been established. Check out the Afghan elections....hmm nice death threats for the female
candidate. What quality freedom 'we've' brought to them, huh?
3. Strengthening the Euro and Yuan while destroying the dollar (the result of which could eventually be a need for America to engage in greater
economic and governmental cooperation with the EU and NATO)
- No, Bush again I'm afraid. Do you really think your bloated and vast spending deficit is going to add value to the dollar!?
Could you expand on why your enormous debt is going to lead to "a need for America to engage in greater economic and governmental cooperation with
the EU and NATO". I don't see how that follows at all.
Nor do I see the dollar destroyed just losing a fair bit of value. That's what happens when you're a net importer for decades and you borrow way so
heavily.
4. Creating a world-wide infrastructure for natural resources (including the tajik pipeline and the Azerbaijani/Georgian/Turkish pipeline,
which can be linked to the Tajik one through the Caspian sea)?
It sounds to me like the push for one world government is coming on strong.
- There are all sorts of old oil lines running over the ME to various places.
Even one old one from Iraq to Israel.....fancy creating a conspiracy theory about that one? It'd be a damn sight more feasible than a China/EU/ World
gov one (at the USA's expense)!