US Economy Can’t Completely Recover Till Offshore Drilling is Approved
And the Housing Fiasco Created by Barney-Dodd Democrate Congress
Begins to be Cleaned up from the Corruptive Political acts that made It
January 1, 2010
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Daniel 12:4 – But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
My first long term Middle East assignment was in the early fifties at a ripe old age of twenty. The colonial European Empires were still withdrawing from Africa and the Middle East at that time, and Morocco was still known as French Morocco.
One did not have to be a visionary or rocket scientist to see the world was heading into an unbelievable era of industrial technology such as the world had never seen at such an accelerated pace, and that man’s knowledge in all disciplines of knowledge was about to explode into the greatest age of Laodicean mammon creature comforts it had ever imagined. I have lived in that age for some 50 years.
America is now occupied by a majority spiritually blinded population that followed politically blind leaders. Now both have fallen into a very deep ditch that will widen when the jobless payments run out.
Revelation 3:17 – Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
Nor did one have to be an Economics Professor to expect the “have not’s” to want an equal share of these mammon creature comforts in the types of houses indwelled, all the types of furniture, appliances, and entertainment centers, as well as the full services by city, state, and national agencies.
Nor did this “have not” desire fail to come to be gloriously and perfectly grasped by some politicians in this country, particularly in the Democratic Party. It has done what I consider to be a magnificently efficient job in organizational planning and actually carrying it out for the last 10 years. The Republican Party for the last 10 years has been almost a complete failure to win much of a share of the “have not” votes.
It was very obvious by the sixties that the technology explosion in industrially fired products had to have an energy
explosion. We must have offshore drilling and coal production to cut our need for OPEC oil, we must continue
to search for alternate clean energy sources, and we must straighten out the housing disaster, or we will never completely recover from our shattered economy.
But our real problem is not the economy it is the spiritual degradation of the people of America.
As I predicted, the Islamic nations have Uncle Sam by the throat. We need to start offshore drilling for US oil as soon as possible. We need to develop all the other energy sources as rapidly as possible, but we need to start offshore drilling NOW!
Begin 1976 quote from “Tectonic Chaos”
The ten horns of Revelation 13:1 are ten Arab nations who will form the nucleus of the final kingdom, and the ten crowns are the power of the kings that will rile them.
For years we have pictured the typical Arab as a scrawny little fellow on a camel in the desert with a comic expression on his face. This viewpoint is quickly changing. Oil is replacing the U.S. dollar in international importance – and soon ten Arab nations will have gained economic control of much of the earth’s wealth. We will not try to stop them because of the Soviet Union – and the Soviet Union will not try to stop them because of us and Red China. The world power block will block itself as the Arab nations prosper in our midst.
End 1976 Quote from “Tectonic Chaos”
Begin REUTERS Excerpt from The Economic Times via World News
29 Dec, 2010, 08.04PM IST,REUTERS
OPEC caution on output may help bring back $100 oil
LONDON: Oil has burst above top exporter Saudi Arabia’s preferred $70-$80 range and yet OPEC is unlikely to stop the rally, helping to prepare the way for the market to bound above $100 a barrel.
Meetings this month — a full conference of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries in Quito and talks among Arab oil ministers in Cairo — oil producers stood by OPEC’s two-year-old set of output curbs.
Even prices of $100 — not far above a 26-month high of $91.88 hit this week — need not damage the economy and would not mean OPEC should pump more if they resulted from speculation rather than any shortage, ministers and officials have said.
“If it goes to $100 due to speculation, OPEC will not move,” OPEC Secretary General Abdullah al-Badri said this month. He also said the organization did not want oil to rise that far.
Analysts are split into those who see fundamental strength as the world economy recovers, driving up fuel consumption, and those who focus on differences between today’s relatively well-supplied market and that of 2008, when oil sped to its all-time high of nearly $150 a barrel.
“It remains to be seen whether prices are responding to short-term weather conditions or longer term demand and monetary issues,” said Sadad al-Husseini, an oil analyst and former top official at Saudi state oil giant Saudi Aramco .
“Given the still abundant oil inventories, it wouldn’t make sense for OPEC to over-react on what may be a very transient condition.”
By the time any extra oil reached consumers, demand could be lower after the peak demand of the northern hemisphere winter.
That would add to oversupply in a market, which for all the nominal strength is still in contango for U.S. crude — a structure in which a relatively cheap front-month contract encourages stock-building.
DEJA VU? More bullish analysts say OPEC caution recalls its action ahead of the record bull run of 2008, when it was slow to add oil.
“The signal from the latest meeting in Quito was one in which the producers are still concerned about the downside,” Barclays Capital said in a note.
“In our view, that means that the upside is more likely to be controlled reactively with a delay rather than pre-emptively.”
It set its price forecast for U.S. crude to 2011 to $91 a barrel, adding that this average figure implied “a sustained period of trading above $100 at points during the year”.
Husseini and many inside OPEC have said dollar-denominated oil is cheaper than it seems because the
dollar has fallen.
“Prices have not yet risen to $100/barrel and there is nothing mysterious about $100/barrel,” he said. “It equates to no more than $80/barrel in 2005 dollars, once current prices are corrected for inflation.”
In nominal terms, oil has risen 35 per cent from a low hit in May and this week’s peak was around 15 per cent above the price at
the end of 2009.
The current rally set in around September after the U.S. Federal Reserve embarked on its latest quantitative easing, which has triggered a wave of buying across financial markets.
Barclays noted total commodity assets under management had reached an all-time high after investors piled in.
Data from U.S. regulator the Commodity Futures Trading Commission released this week showed money managers extended their net long crude oil positions to a record.
“The Fed has in a sense been pushing the speculators. OPEC can very well argue it’s not its role to add more oil,” said Olivier Jakob of Petromatrix.
Still oil’s strength has been modest by comparison with commodities that face looming shortfalls, such as copper, which has touched a series of records. As oil began to rise in September, traders were contemplating record fuel inventories in the United States, the world’s biggest oil user.
Stocks have since fallen, although a deep draw in crude stockpiles could have been in part because of year-end tax positioning. The latest U.S. data will emerge late on Wednesday and on Thursday.
In addition to stocks, OPEC has significant spare capacity, which it has pegged at around 6 million barrels per day.
Iraq, which is exempt from the OPEC system of supply curbs as it recovers from war and sanctions, has huge scope to grow.
Analysts have disputed it can meet a capacity target of 12 million bpd in around seven years, but even a slower increase would provide much of the extra oil needed to meet any rise in demand.
Its new oil minister said it aimed to increase output to 3 million bpd by the end of 2011, up from around 2.6 million bpd.
A Reuters poll saw the call on OPEC, as opposed to non-OPEC oil, increasing by 600,000 bpd in 2011.
Overall oil use would rise by 1.5 million bpd.
Absolute demand would hit a new high, but the rate of demand growth is slower than the record of 3 million bpd in 2004, according to figures from the International Energy Agency .
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