tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18174466.post6711703717790035699..comments2024-03-28T02:34:41.459-07:00Comments on Qlipoth: It's a QuagmireQlipothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17343878659776948134noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18174466.post-41149608074160215552007-08-12T09:57:00.000-07:002007-08-12T09:57:00.000-07:00I mean, in the years between Gulf War 1 and GW2, t...I mean, in the years between Gulf War 1 and GW2, the quagmire had become worth risking. Or even creating.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18174466.post-64925128179340804762007-08-12T08:24:00.000-07:002007-08-12T08:24:00.000-07:00"How many more dead Americans is it worth? Our opi..."How many more dead Americans is it worth? Our opinion was: not very many." (Cheney, April 15th 1994)<BR/><BR/>Time passes, though. Facts become unignorable, and priorities change. This is him five years later, in Autumn 1999, addressing the Institute of Petroleum in London:<BR/><BR/><I>"By some estimates there will be an average of two per cent annual growth in global oil demand over the years ahead along with conservatively a three per cent natural decline in production from existing reserves. That means by 2010 we will need on the order of an additional fifty million barrels a day. <B>So where is the oil going to come from?</B> Governments and the national oil companies are obviously controlling about ninety per cent of the assets. Oil remains fundamentally a government business. While many regions of the world offer great oil opportunities, <B>the Middle East with two thirds of the worldâs oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies</B>; even though companies are anxious for greater access there, progress continues to be slow."</I><BR/><BR/>http://www.studien-von-zeitfragen.de/Zeitfragen/Cheney_on_Oil/cheney_on_oil.html<BR/><BR/>(He was still CEO of Halliburton at the time.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com