Here It Is! I’ve Been Saying This For Over A Year.
“Iraqi public opinion is strongly opposed to handing control over oil development to foreign companies,” said a November report entitled “Crude Designs: the rip-off of Iraq’s oil wealth” from the independent British-based social activist organisation Platform.
“But,” the reports continues, “with the active involvement of the US and British governments, a group of powerful Iraqi politicians and technocrats is pushing for a system of long-term contracts with foreign oil companies which will be beyond the reach of Iraqi courts, public scrutiny, or democratic control”.
“Platform’s economic projections show that the oil development model currently being proposed by those in power would “cost Iraq hundreds of billions of dollars in lost revenues, while providing foreign companies with enormous profit”, and would leave the Iraqi government to control only the 17 fields already in production, out of the estimated 80 known fields in the country.”
BIG CONTRACTS FOR BIG OIL
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“After a 35 year wait, American and British oil corporations are on the verge of securing control of Iraq’s vast oil reserves. Becca Fisher reveals how the unholy alliance of Big Oil, government and the IMF is getting closer to its goal of reconstructing the Iraqi state to gain secure oil supplies.
The new law would allow foreign oil companies to sign long term contracts, giving them exclusive rights over Iraq’s huge oil fields.”
Further pressure has come from the US government. It has been reported that prime minister Al-Maliki fears that if the parliament does not pass the law by the end of June, he might lose American support, which would effectively oust him from
power.”
This is why Bush and Blair have hung on to Al Maliki in spite of his obvious corruption. He’s helping to sign away Iraqs oil in return for power and, no doubt, great personal wealth. I knew there was a reason he was still around and when Cheney had to go to the Saudi king to speak on Al Malikis behalf, I finally started digging deeper.
We and the UK are in Iraq, along with Albania, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, South Korea, Japan, Portugal, Singapore and the Ukraine. Each country gets a piece of the oil action. If you look at each nation’s energy needs, you see that all of them except the UK and the US are non or very low energy producers and all of them import most of their energy needs.
By aiding in securing the Iraqi oil, all these countries are ensuring their future energy needs at “special” prices.
This is why hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have died. This is why the more virulent anti-American terrorist groups like Al Qaeda keep pouring in. This is why Iran and Saudi Arabia alike are against us in Iraq. Iran and Saudi Arabia don’t want us getting cheap oil instead of paying them more for theirs. This is also why the Iraqi people have been steadily turning against us.
The Saudis especially don’t want us to have that oil as they are the ones paying for the takeover of the world by Islam, Wahabbist Islam, the worst kind, by funding thousands of “madrassas”, radical Islamic schools, all over the world, as well as sending thousands of Arabs to our colleges, sending Arabs here to marry our women and convert them to Islam, paying for building mosques, pushing for more muslim immigration to our countries and so on. No wonder King Abdullah is upset.
The purpose of the war in Iraq is to get control of the oil. Greed. However, if it takes money away from the Saudis, I’m all for it.
It’s all about the oil. It always was.
May 21st, 2007 at 6:28 pm
I read somewhere, can’t remember where, that most Iraqis don’t want outside connections to their oil; however, they don’t have the means, knowledge, materials to get the oil out of the ground and to market without outside help. If true, that puts them in a tough spot.
May 22nd, 2007 at 9:17 pm
Oil is a sound basis.
Water will be next.
Desalination uses scarce energy.
May 22nd, 2007 at 9:43 pm
Rastaman. A reader at Right Truth sent me an email just now. He is on to something, but since oil is your thing, I’m giving it to you. If you want to run with it, be my guest. Let me know. Here’s what the email said:
“I heard some one say if we save 1 gallon of gas a month the price would fall, but I want to know how many gallons a year are the illegels buying and how does it affect our current demand, with over 20 million of them, they have to be using quite a bit of gas, if that demand would go away from deporting the illegels, how much would the cost of gas fall, if you can get studies done, and present facts of an estimated demand drop and price drop, you’d get a lot more of the fence sitting Americans to rally for enforcing the immigration laws! Thanks for your time.
Patrick”
Interesting concept, huh???
May 22nd, 2007 at 10:36 pm
Very interesting and an excellent point. Thanks, Debbie. This no doubt would be pretty difficult to document without some fancy resources but I’ll see what I can come up with, if anything.
Gas in Mexico is cheaper than here in the US, since most of their oil production goes to their citizens and pretty much the rest comes to us where we get to pay more. If all those Mexicans stayed in Mexico instead of swimming the Rio, they would be using the gas there instead of here, which might decrease the amount of flow into the US and the price might then stay about the same here. I’ll check it out.
Saudi Arabia gets virtually all its water now from desalinization plants, but then it has the energy sources. Actually, for those Arab countries without good natural fresh water sources, they have no lack of sunshine which can power desalinization plants and is doing so now in various countries.
May 22nd, 2007 at 10:50 pm
Okay, here it is. The study we want on the influx of illegal aliens and our increasing gasoline prices was done back in 2002!!!
Immigration and the Energy Crisis
Stuff like this just never makes it to the MSM. I wonder why? (DUH!)
May 26th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
Whats the issue with the new pipeline for oil going into Iran from Iraq, thats what ive just read on jihadwatch. How would this fit in with Bush and Blairs hopes.
May 27th, 2007 at 3:14 am
The pipeline is expected to be finished in about a year. Iraq is producing very little oil and the constant sabotage of their decaying oil infrastructure including the pipelines is steadily decreasing the little oil production they have.
Over 80 percent of Iraqs oil fields containing nearly all of Iraqs known oil reserves are untapped. No wells. This is what Bush and Blair are after. What little oil flow to Iran hardly matters. Iran produces more oil than its own refinery can handle and Iran imports a lot of its refined fuel. So any oil into Iran would be shipped on. Iran would just be a middleman in the sale of it, and not much of it at that.