The Ponderosa: Iraq seeks to increase future oil output

Death before Dhimmitude

Energy Independence

Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?

--Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Monday, August 16, 2004

Iraq seeks to increase future oil output

Minister of Oil: The ministry intends to dig 2000 new oil wells through next year

Minister of oil Thamer Abbas Al-Ghdban declared that the ministry intends to dig 2000 oil wells and execute lines extensions of gas pipes of 3000 kilometers long inside Iraq, and he added that the development of standing oil
Fields and execution of these projects are within the ministry plan of year 2005.
The minister said that they have now 42 projects including extension of gas pipes are ready for investmentment.

On the other side the general manager of the oil products distribution company (doctor Hussain Ali Al-Fettal) declared that they have finished designs for establishment of a number of fuel stations in the universities, central malls and regions with high population, in coordination with Baghdad Municipality to specify areas to establish the new stations on.

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This can't sit well the Greenies on the Angry Left! Why, no sooner will we have routed the Jihadist terrorists than they will be replaced by an almost as unpleasant (and equally unwashed) sort: the enviro-kooks from Earth First: "You're destroying the natural habitat of the precious sand flea!"

The Ponderosa

Monday, August 16, 2004

Iraq seeks to increase future oil output

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