oil

OK, odd science problem here. My car has ahd an oil change lately, and the past couple of times the oil changer has pointed out that the cap had a yellow sludge on it. From what I don't know. I had them do an engine purge. Fast foward a little bit, I was checking my oil today and found that the...

Hello, The following link claim/tells lot of health benefits of PALM OIL:- http://www.mpopc.org.my/consumer_health_benefits.asp Healthier Hearts Beautiful Skin Diets & Eating Preventing Cancer Excellent Energy These effects were thought just opposite previously. No doubt, it a fruit pulp...

OK, a while back we all heard about how Hugo Chavez was going to make lots of cheap heating oil available to the poor via Citgo. Democracy Now! urged all its listeners to buy gas only at Citgo. It's November now, and it's getting cold, even in Florida. It's tank-filling-up-season. Where's...

Bush said the following in his press conference today: "The storms that hit our Gulf Coast also touched every American with higher prices at the gas pump. They highlighted a problem I've been talking about since I've come to Washington: We need more refining capacity. It ought to be clear to...

what do you guys think of this news item? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3777413.stm Is the world's oil running out fast? If you think oil prices are high at $40 a barrel then wait till they are four times that much. How will you pay to run your car? How will you get the children to...

“Speaking on state-run radio, Iran's envoy to OPEC said his country was ready to send up to five shiploads of crude oil to the US. But he said this could only happen if US sanctions were lifted first.” What do you think? Is this just a ploy to make the US look bad, when they have no real...

I'm surprised nobody has posted about this yet and in fact I'm so surprised that I'm guessing there's been a thread about it that I've missed. There has been a public bet made about the average price of a barrell of oil in the year 2010. Matthew Simmons (who has some oil connection but I'm not...

From President Bush's speech in San Diego yesterday.... I thought it wasn't about the oil. But, now, I guess it is in part about the oil (gee, wasn't that something Sheehan was saying?). Sad that our national energy policies will do little to reduce our dependence on a dangerous, volitile...

I also have a thread of the same title over on www.physicsforums.com , I'm wanting to get the most input I can.:) An idea I had some weeks ago is genetically engineered plants that synthesize petroleum oil from hydrogen and carbon. If the need for such a thing was upon us in the next few years...

Any data so I can refute this?--> http://www.galilean-library.org/academy/viewtopic.php?t=341

I seem to have inadvertently set off some fireworks in that Global Warming thread. You just never know when you're gonna push some people's buttons! Be that as it may, here's another energy-resource related question. Since Ma Thatcher had her fight with the miners in the UK, most of our...

On an e-list I belong to, somebody has just posted the claim that Tea Tree oil is so good against infection that in Australia, hospitals inject it intavenaenously (sp?) into people with infections and use it against MRSA. Any comments from Australians? Or anyone?

Another country caught with their hand in the cookie (oil) barrel! Yep it looks like yet another country at least looked the other way when it came to Iraq oil sales: Yet more evidence that some things truly are international – greed! :( I was a supporter of the sanctions against Iraq...

When oil starts running really low, the world's industries will rely on 100 percent man made fuels. Who makes fuels? Well, corporations of course. Governments have a role, but any economist can tell you the states with government owned energy resources are administered incompetently. Just look...

http://afr.com/articles/2005/03/18/1111086004998.html All the signs are there, production has peaked, and demand is still growing. The market certainly seems to recognise that. The Iraq invasion was a futile roll of the dice to secure a supply of oil, but 200Billion has been blown on...

http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/Introduction.html Any thoughts on this website?

Hey there, This post was inspired by the "Fuel Prices..." thread My question is this: what would be the short- and long-term impact on the USA if oil were bought and sold in Euros instead of US Dollars? I assume it would be negative, but why? I would guess that any importer of oil must have...

Holding on to hopes of an America that will one day be free from reliance on oil from the Middle East and self-sufficient in its energy needs? Well, stop dreaming and wake up to reality, say top oil executives, who dismiss the idea of US energy independence as mere political fluff. Instead...

Well we might as well begin a thread on the Oil for FRAUD scandal. I did a few threads about it six months ago but the first report has finally been released. Annan Vows Action Against UN Staff in Iraq Program The UN was against the war in Iraq because top officials at the UN had an financial...

Im just exaggerating..........quite a bit. THe reason I post this story is cause there are some out there who imply that the oil for food kickback money was the real reason France, Russia ect. were against the invasion. I allways thought that was bunk. While there were individuals and...

From the BBC.... How sick! Michael Jackson should become a UNHCR staff member, a bowl of rice is sure cheaper than $25,000,000 in hush money. So, who polices the UN again? Oh yeah, the UN. :rolleyes: -z

Posible strike in Nigeria targeting oil production http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3969381.stm I'm glad I don't drive.

I don't believe oil was the main reason, but can imagine it was considered among a long list of different reasons to go to war with Iraq. The 98 letter to Clinton(by Rummy, Wolfy a.o.) mentioned the concern for oil, so that can be regarded as evidence...

Leave out the conspiracy theories and please only present facts in this thread. If 20% of US oil imports come from the middle east, how much of the world's oil is regulated / sold by U.S companies or its subsidiaries ? no fibbing, provide sources.

A congressional committee will release info on how "the world" (france china and russia) picked up big bucks by playing footsie with their favorite arms customer, Saddam, while iraqi children starved. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,134256,00.html

Yep, heard it again on the radio. There might be a lot out there still, but we can't get it out of the ground and into the petrol tank any quicker than we can now. Shell has already come a cropper because they overestimated their ability to increase flows to what they optimistically expected...

Seems the insurgents have been busy. About two attacks a week on average on oil pipelines and production facilities. A long list of attacks on oil pipelines... http://www.iags.org/iraqpipelinewatch.htm It seems that it'll stay expensive to collect petroleum. The terrorists have finally -...

This was a popular line prior to the invasion. It was a counter to the "invasion will cosyt too much" argument. No one ever seems to comment how it was a bunch of bullflop! BULLFLOP I SAY!!! Why isnt the Kerry camp using this?? Why cant we use Iraq oil money? Is it not being pummped?? Is it...

Anyone familiar with the "abiotic" notion of oil production? As I understand it, this is the idea that crude petroleum is not an organic product, but is being constantly produced by chemical processes deep in the earth. In essence, an endless supply. This sounds like woo-woo wish fulfilment...

It's a bit late in Aus, so my brain is going into conspiracy theory mode. Is the oil well sabotaging in Iraq being done by the Saudis so that the world is more dependant on their oil?