----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Maas" Subject: Re: Global warming was: The Nine-spotted
> As to petrochemicals, there are alternate solutions for most uses of > them. The alternate solutions are more expensive however, but I expect > they will become more popular as reserves drop. The biggest problem I > see with Oil is poor management in certain countries. Venezuela has > already seen their output nosedive as the Chavistas replace engineers > with politically reliable incompetents in the oilfields, and the Saudi's > have greatly shortened their fields lifetimes by overpumping. > I think we are going to see an even bigger problem with petrochemical supply due to political issues. For some reason, those darned Pinkos in Venezuela and the Muslims who are sitting on the middle east oil fields think they own what is beneath their feet, and they are increasingly coming to dislike us westerners. As an aside, does anyone know what the military consumption of petrochemical is on a daily basis to run the war in Iraq? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net