words, words, words

Something weird is going on in Brazil, and I hope it is just saber-rattling.  The President of Brazil is claiming that they need to protect themselves from people stealing their offshore oil. This announcement comes as the U.S. Navy is reestablishing the U.S. Fourth Fleet, a fleet that will patrol the Caribbean and Latin America.

“The (Brazilian) Navy plays an important role in protecting our subsalt reserves, because the men of Fourth Fleet are almost there on top of the subsalt areas,” Lula said in a speech inaugurating a new oil platform in southern Brazil.”

“Our Navy has to be the guardian of our offshore oil platforms to protect our patrimony, because before you know it some wise guy will come along and say: ‘This is mine, it’s at the bottom of the ocean anyway, so it’s mine.’”

Please let’s not have another war, and not have it been over oil… again!  I thought we were finished with this crap.

(That said, I like the use of the phrase “wise guy”, it harknes back to an age when gangsters at least had snappy lingo.)

I, like Google, am thinking of starting a Miscanthus farm. I want to start the farm on my balcony, and brew ethanol to power my Mad Max-style escape vehicle… when the marauding bands start pillaging London.

I just found this. I liked it.
Current Terror Threat Level:

Just in time for the mid-term elections in the United States, Saddam
Hussein is told he will be hung.

I think someday we will look back at the current energy policy with
wonder. “There was so much oil, that we burned it for fuel!”

This is a picture of Blair’s forehead.

In other news, George W Bush has a missile on his forehead.

This is weird.
Earthquake in the Gulf
Hope no oil derricks got knocked over.

On July 11th I bought stock in Exxon.
Here is my rationale:
If you can’t beat ‘em, exploit ‘em.
I had this crazy idea that Bush was going to cause a bunch of global
trouble to push up the price of oil before he left office.
That way he could retire super-rich, instead of just rich.
Oil keeps on rising.
I’ll let Bush give me some dirty money and then spend it on an
electric car.
I’ve been told that people have gone broke doing things like what I
have done based on hunches.
However, I think the Elliott Wave is a lot crazier.
The idea that there are patterns in the market if you can only look
at it from the right height.
It reminds me of something cool I heard on the BBC.
They said that the coastline of England becomes larger the more you
zoom in on it.
Wide swaths of map become craggy nooks and little bays.
Then individual rocks, then grains of sand, then the moving ocean,
rising sea levels.
It is chaos theory.
You can magnify it to the point where it is not measurable. To the
point where your very existence can alter the outcomes.
So… of course you can find a pattern in the stock market. Just
zoom in or out until you find a measurement that suits you theory, it
has to be there.
I’m assuming that greed rules politics. That seems a lot more
sensible to me.

I think we are going to find, with the passage of time, that George
Bush and his cronies are some of the biggest criminals in history.
First, they disrupted the flow of oil to create record-breaking
profits for their corporate bedfellows. Then Bush and Co. invaded a
sovereign nation under false pretenses of their having Weapons Of
Mass Destruction when WE have weapons of mass destruction; then, when
that didn’t hold up and we found that they didn’t have the weapons,
Bush Inc. hopped to the other foot saying what they really wanted to
do was bring “democracy” to the people of Iraq. Democracy is a
government based upon the will of the people. We the people didn’t
vote about whether or not we should invade Iraq, but the entire
process was a lie from start to finish anyway. I think that the
flouting of the Geneva Conventions (Guantanamo) and
“liberating” (read: invading, or pillaging oil from) other countries
without the consent of the UN Security Council are both actions which
are illegal. There were laws agreed upon and Bush chose to ignore
them, or claim that they didn’t apply.
I just hope that when history catches up with these kleptocrats they
get a long trip to the prison system that has flourished under their
regime.
Not just Kenneth Lay (who will be pardoned at the last minute of
Bush’s term anyway), or some other Bush underling. I want them all
to go to jail, it would set a good precedent for other leaders who
want to exploit power for their own gain. Bush is just a mouthpiece
anyway, the real brains behind the operation need to be caught as well.

Just out of curiosity, when they pump these millions of barrels of
oil out of the ground, what fills in the holes?
Especially in places like the world’s largest oil field, Ghawar in
Saudi Arabia, which produces 4.5 millions of barrels per day.
The water doesn’t leak into the ground and fill the holes, Ghawar is
in the desert.
Are we making Swiss Cheese under our feet?
Maybe I’m just ignorant, but I’ve never heard anyone address the issue.
I know that this isn’t that important in relation to the fact that
there isn’t an unlimited supply of oil and we will run out someday,
but what about the holes!?!
What if they make sinkholes and craters? That could be bad!