Archive for the 'Energy' Category
Opium: Iraq’s Deadly New Export
May 24th, 2007A week in the life of the Global Black Ops Economy / War on Terror: On Monday, Wednesday and Friday, it’s about a generalized shakedown resulting in bogus contracts to criminal corporations. On Tuesday and Thursday, it’s about oil. On Saturday and Sunday, it’s about drugs. Everything that happens on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday […]
Miles to Go
May 22nd, 2007The power crisis is a purpose built crisis. That’s not the problem. The problem is a lack of a concept of enough. The managers of this pop stand are taking the thing down in order to monopolize what’s left of the inventory for themselves. What we don’t know is how They’ll manage the kill off […]
Gasoline Price at Inflation Adjusted Peak
May 22nd, 2007Via: Reuters: U.S. retail gasoline prices hit a record high for the second week in a row and matched the inflation-adjusted peak reached in the early 1980s during the Iran-Iraq war, the government said on Monday, as concern about low motor fuel supplies pushed up pump costs. The average price for regular unleaded gasoline soared […]
Massachusetts Electricity Infrastructure Facing Possible Collapse this Summer
May 15th, 2007Via: Boston Herald: With temperatures already surging into the 80s and a scorching summer on tap, many Massachusetts communities could face a spike in blackouts – and possibly even explosions – from thousands of potentially dangerous overloaded electrical transformers. Documents obtained by the Herald show more than 12,000 transformers from Attleboro to Ayer are operating […]
Hookers, Spies, Cases Full of Dollars…How BP Spent £45m to Win ‘Wild East’ Oil Rights
May 14th, 2007This article has been pulled from dailymail.co.uk (Google Cache) and thisislondon.co.uk. Prisonplanet.com is mirroring the entire article since the British Government appears to have issued a D-Notice over this. I’ll mirror it here as well: Hookers, Spies, Cases Full of Dollars…How BP Spent £45m to Win ‘Wild East’ Oil Rights GLEN OWEN UK Daily Mail […]
Billions in Oil Missing in Iraq
May 13th, 2007If the “newspaper of record” in the U.S. can parrot the GAO theory that the insurgents might have stolen it *chuckle: that’s a good one, har har*, can I make absurd and ridiculous statements too? Piles of corpses, billions of dollars worth of dodgy deals, mercenaries by the thousands and 100,000 to 300,000 barrels of […]
Baby, You Can Fuel My Car
May 9th, 2007As you know, my wife and I don’t watch TV. We don’t have one in the house. But I remember somehow being exposed to those freaky pharmaceutical adds. Do you know the ones I mean? Pills hovering in purple fields with weird sunsets, and frightening, doped up women with Laura Bush smiles, etc… The kind […]
Cryptogon Readers Contribute $100, $30 and $25
May 7th, 2007Many thanks to these Cryptogon contributors for adding some exclamation points on Dagobaz’s opening statement in May: Anonymous $100 AS $30 RW $25 Wow! And on Amazon… A generous soul remembered to order his or her exercise bike via Cryptogon. I don’t know who you are, but thanks! Man, I wonder if there would be […]
Plastic Micro Wind Turbines Available for Sale
April 21st, 2007Excellent option for low wind areas. Man, the price is right! 20 micro turbines with generator rated 170W for 10m/s of wind: US$250!? Via: PESN: Two of the biggest hurdles for using wind power have been cost and the need for strong winds. A Hong Kong businessman/inventor has found a way to overcome those problems […]
China to Raise Oil Imports by 14%, Sinopec Group Says
April 18th, 2007Sure, and I’ll flap my wings and fly around like a bird. Could happen, right? Via: Bloomberg: China, the world’s largest energy user after the U.S., may increase crude oil imports by as much as 14 percent this year to meet surging domestic demand, said an official with the nation’s largest oil refiner. The nation […]
