[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', '
')How about instead of reducing Iran to a sheet of glass, how about not having done this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

[Homesteader]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'S')eems like half the middle east is still holding a grudge over the crusades. GET ON WITH IT people!

[Pretorian]

You not seriously suggesing that a Jew will compare a Goish cadaver with a Jewish one?

[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', '
')How about instead of reducing Iran to a sheet of glass, how about not having done this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

[ki11ercane]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ki11ercane', '
')Iran needed to be reduced to glass 40 years ago. Now, it's too late.

[rangerone314]

Iran is probably more democratic than North Korea, yet I don't see a movement to turn North Korea into a sheet of glass.

[Mesuge]

rangerone314> eak, eak, alert, conspiracy theories again. It never happened and if true, it doesn't matter, 'cause the U.S. are not evil doers.. and iranian leaders eat israeli children (as seen regularly on TV) anyway

Back on topic, so what is the aggregate of gasoline removed under sanctions in Iran on year-year basis etc.?

[shortonsense]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('KevO', 's')o it begins?

[gollum]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', 'H')ow about instead of reducing Iran to a sheet of glass, how about not having done this: link

[Revi]

I have a theory that the US and Israel actually are allies of Iran. Whose nuke did Israel bomb? Iraq, Iran's enemy at the time. Who did we take out? You guessed it- Iraq. We also made it safe for Shia in Afghanistan, another rival.

We may have back channel deals being made with Iran while publicly professing to hate them.

Persia is a very old empire, and they have been at this for a long time.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Homesteader', '
')Maybe then folks should get over what happened in the early 1940s in Germany and get on with it.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', '
')There are still Americans who won't buy Japanese cars because of WWII, and still people with numbers tatooed on their arms.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', 'I')ran is probably more democratic than North Korea, yet I don't see a movement to turn North Korea into a sheet of glass.

[gollum]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', '
')There are still Americans who won't buy Japanese cars because of WWII, and still people with numbers tatooed on their arms.

[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Homesteader', '
')Maybe then folks should get over what happened in the early 1940s in Germany and get on with it.

[Concerned]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Homesteader', '
')Maybe then folks should get over what happened in the early 1940s in Germany and get on with it.

[vampyregirl]

Virent Energy Systems and Royal Dutch Shell announced today the sucessful start of production at the first demonstration plant converting plant sugars into gasoline and gasoline blending components rather than ethanol.
The demonstration plant has the capacity to produce 38k litres per year, which will be used for engine and fleet testing.
This new biofeul has a higher energy content than ethanol, gets better fuel economy and can be blended in high concentration with gasoline for use in traditional gasoline engines. This eliminates the need for specialized infrastructure, engine conversions, and blending equipment necessary for using gasoline containing more than 10% ethanol.
Virents BioForming technology uses catalysts to convert plant sugars into hydrocarbon molecules. http://www.virent.com for more info.
The plant is currently using beat sugars.
Virent counts Honda among its top investors and Shell as a strategic partner. Lee Edwards, CEO of Virents says Virents industry leading collaboration with Shell is focused on providing material solutions to global challenges in energy security, sustainability and job creations.

[kublikhan]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'R')oyal Dutch Shell has begun preparatory drilling for an offshore oil well in the Arctic, the oil company announced Sunday, the first step in a long-controversial project. U.S. authorities granted Shell permission to begin work on the well in the Chukchi Sea, about 90 miles off the Alaskan North Slope, in late August.

"Today marks the culmination of Shell's six-year effort to explore for potentially significant oil and gas reserves, which are believed to lie under Alaska's Outer Continental Shelf," company spokesman Curtis Smith said in a writen statement. "In the days to come, drilling will continue in the Chukchi Sea, and we will prepare for drilling to commence in the Beaufort Sea."

The shrinking of the region's sea ice -- which hit record lows this year -- has created new opportunities for energy exploration in the region. But environmental groups argue that Shell has failed to show it can handle a spill in the inhospitable region, roughly 700 miles north of Anchorage.

[Plantagenet]

The title of this topic is misleading, as there has already been a lot of Arctic drilling by Russia in the Barents Sea, by Denmark off Greenland, by Norway off Svalbard, and by Canada. There have also previously been offshore wells north of Alaska done by the USA.

However, the news that Shell is now close to spudding in off Alaska is interesting. I saw the two Shell drill ships down in Dutch Harbor during August, together with a small fleet of tugs, fuel barges and other support craft that was heading up to the Chukchi with the drill ships. September is a ridiculously late time to start, but the drilling was held up by the EPA. On the positive side for Shell, this is the all-time record low for sea ice, so they may able to work for a month or so before the weather shuts them down.

[Graeme]

Ice prompts Shell to halt oil drilling in waters off Alaska

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A') day after it began, the first oil drilling off in the Arctic waters off Alaska was halted today because of an approaching mass of ice, Royal Dutch Shell tells the Associated Press.

The drilling -- a narrow 1,400-foot-deep "pilot hole" to check for natural gas or obstructions -- began Sunday before dawn in the Chukchi Sea, about 70 miles northwest of the Alaskan shore. Work will resume once the ice, measuring about 30 miles by 12 miles, passes the Noble Discoverer drilling ship, a spokesman said, describing the halt as a precaution.

Opponents question how any spill, let alone something the magnitude of the BP Gulf of Mexico disaster, would be contained or cleaned up in the harsh polar environment. Shell said it was testing "the first-ever Arctic containment system" over the weekend.

The Anchorage Daily News has details and background about the exploratory drilling, which the Obama administration approved last month, with conditions. Unless the Interior Department grants an 18-day extension to complete the well, which will not reach oil reserves, Shell must stop drilling by Sept. 24. Warmer temperatures, the result of climate change, have caused record ice melt and open waters.