Oil Industry Scales Back Refinery Plans
June 18th, 2007Everyone knows that the biofuel scam only results in higher food prices, and now, the oil cartel is saying, “With all the biofuel, we don’t need to invest if more refining capacity.”
The food and energy scarcity issues are being engineered into a kill off mechanism that also generates massive profits. Anyone who can’t see this, at this late state of the game, is an idiot. This is not the folly of empires. This is, cold, calculated genocide.
So, as what remains of the topsoil is used to fuel your car, and the prices of everything skyrockets, keep a few of these recent Cryptogon stories in mind:
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The Power Crisis Mythology, the 40% Efficient Solar Cell and the Cost of the War in Iraq
Clean Energy and Turning What’s Left Into Trash
Don’t want to read it all? Here it is in a nutshell:
Billions of people are going to be killed off so that what remains of the strategic resources of the planet may be kept under control of the elite. Survivors will be enslaved under a regime of clean, green fascism.
Via: Yahoo / AP:
A push from Congress and the White House for huge increases in biofuels, such as ethanol, is prompting the oil industry to scale back its plans for refinery expansions. That could keep gasoline prices high, possibly for years to come.
With President Bush calling for a 20 percent drop in gasoline use and the Senate now debating legislation for huge increases in ethanol production, oil companies see growing uncertainty about future gasoline demand and little need to expand refineries or build new ones.
Oil industry executives no longer believe there will be the demand for gasoline over the next decade to warrant the billions of dollars in refinery expansions — as much as 10 percent increase in new refining capacity — they anticipated as recently as a year ago.
Biofuels such as ethanol and efforts to get automakers to build more fuel-efficient cars and SUVs have been portrayed as key to countering high gasoline prices, but they are likely to do little to curb costs at the pump today, or in the years ahead as refiners reduce gasoline production.
A shortage of refineries frequently has been blamed by politicians for the sharp price spikes in gasoline, as was the case last week by Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., during debate on a Senate energy bill.
“The fact is that Americans are paying more at the pump because we do not have the domestic capacity to refine the fuels consumers demand,” Inhofe complained as he tried unsuccessfully to get into the bill a proposal to ease permitting and environmental rules for refineries.
This spring, refiners, hampered by outages, could not keep up with demand and imports were down because of greater fuel demand in Europe and elsewhere. Despite stable — even sometimes declining — oil prices, gasoline prices soared to record levels and remain well above $3 a gallon.
Consumer advocates maintain the oil industry likes it that way.
“By creating a situation of extremely tight supply, the oil companies gain control over price at the wholesale level,” said Mark Cooper of the Consumer Federation of America. He argued that a wave of mergers in recent years created a refining industry that “has no interest in creating spare (refining) capacity.”
I think you’ve got it 80% correct. The energy and food scarcity problems are real problems, just as they were real problems for previous societies such as the Romans, the Vikings, the Rapa Nui, etc. (Surely you don’t believe THEY engineered those collapses as well?)
The solution to these real problems, is a kill-off. That’s pretty much what the elite in those previous societies attempted as well: to kill off the competing elites and the non-essential peasantry. I think somebody in one of today'[s top factions will just preemptively release a bioweapon, if they haven’t done so already.
I call bullshit.
Everybody knows that biofuel is a scam, most of all the oil industry. They know oil is peaking. It makes perfect sense to stop investing in refineries. The only question for them his how to argue for it, because they can’t just say that oil has peaked. So they use biofuel as excuse.
In a related note: it also does not make sense to manufacture more airplanes, or build bigger highways, or increase car manufacturing capacities, or increase air travel capacity. But that’s just something nobody wants to acknowledge.
@ Matt: agree; http://www.detrick.army.mil/nibc/nibc01.cfm
@ Fefe: agree; the oil tanker fleet is being modernized, but total capacity is not being expanded, same reason
Ah yes, Jevons Paradox (the law of unintended consequences) well illustrated.
Matt and Fefe, well said gentlemen. Note also that Note also that OPEC has not/will not (actually cannot) boost production….
TPTB see a choice between Olduvai Gorge (crash) and managed dieoff, and have opted for the latter, repleat with Kevin’s clean green fascism and modern serfdom for those who survive. Two birds, one stone.
I agree with Matt and FeFe. The problems are real and are being used as an exuse for a die-off/kill-off.
I don’t intend to be one of the dead, and am making the necessary preparations.
They know oil is peaking….. The only question for them his how to argue for it, because they can’t just say that oil has peaked.
Well, they could say that, but it would have to be followed by “and here’s our plan to deal with it.” Since there’s no plan, such a statement would likely lead to panic, at least in the economic sector.
In his Book “Powerdown”, Richard Heinberg writes the imaginary speech that George W. Bush should have given after 9/11, mandating that the business of American business would henceforth be to wean ourselves off of fossil fuels: electric cars, improved mass transit, solar, etc. Nice dream, but….
It looks like everything’s on schedule for the big blowout of 2012. It’s kind of a bummer not being able to plan some kind of escape, but where do you run from worldwide ecological meltdown, total economic collapse, and thermonuclear holocaust? Maybe the genetic mutations that result will produce some superior species, and it will all have been worth it.
Richard Heinberg believes the events of 911 were orchestrated in order for the US to gain a stronger foothold in the ME energy fields (inside job).17:40 mark in this video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8677389869548020370
Powerdown was written before his epiphany. Not a criticism, it was written before many people had a handle on just how desperate/devious the situation is.
Speaking of “clean, green fascism,” new UN head henchman Ban ki-Moon has declared that the Darfur genocide is all the fault of global climate change.
http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=900
I wonder what other mass atrocities we can blame on global warming? I’d say the possibilities are endless at this point.
I wish I had access to insurance data to see which oil refineries were being loaded up with insurance policies to get some insight as to where the fireworks are going to start.
http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/andros/2007/0511.html
I have the very uneasy feeling you’ve got it right.
Here’s a link to an e-book, called “Lights Out.” The link was posted on the bullnotbull website awhile back, and the post-collapse scenario the author envisions is, I think, relevant to this discussion.
http://www.survivalmonkey.com/SF%20books/LightsOut!/LightsOut-Current.pdf
Strange, isn’t it, that we seem to be able to do nothing but blandly concur that we ourselves, and our friends, neighbors, and loved ones will soon be the victims of genocide?
I’ve made preparations, but like most other people, my ability to so so is somewhat limited–mainly by budgetary constraints. Some reasonable preparations include having a stockpile of staple foods, which will buy your family some time. And that’s all it will do–just buy you some time.
I have a paid-for roof over my head, I’m in the country, and I’ve put in a vegetable garden (too small to sustain more than one person, maximum, using even the very best practices). While this is theoretically good, too, the effectiveness of preparations of this kind depend on being able to stay put, and this is an unknown.
I have a wood stove, and there is abundant wood in this area, and one can hope, I suppose, that it will remain possible to buy enough gasoline, two-cycle engine oil, and bar and chain oil to power a chainsaw. If not, winters could get mighty unpleasant, simply because it would become so labor-intensive to cut wood that there would likely not be enough for actual comfort. But I guess if you have no job, you have more time for cutting firewood.
Without fossil fuels, water will become an issue–a problem that is addressed in “Lights Out.”
In my area, we must haul water. This means we depend on water being hauled from 5 miles away by a guy with a half-ton pickup with a tank on the back. (Many people haul their own water, of course.) There will come a point in time at which the cost of hauling water back in here will become prohibitive.
Accordingly, I have just begun the project of putting up guttering to run rainwater into my cistern. Due to an ill-conceived roof-line, it looks as if this project will become absurdly costly.
After the rainwater collection set-up is finished–and who knows how long that will take–I’d like to have some kind of minimal back-up electricity. Another immensely costly project.
And regardless of any preparations I make, how the die-off will actually go down is an imponderable–and very likely it will be accompanied by a great deal of violence, especially in the cities.
I don’t think it will be possible to keep the problems contained within the cities–at least not indefinitely. And what will happen in country towns, when the majority of their populations are hungry?
And so, I too blandly concur that a catastrophe of inconceivable proportions awaits us–and it will not be too far into the future–and any preparations we make are only guesswork. All our best guesses could be undone by unforeseen circumstances, or even the casual forces of mere accident.
Again being a technologist I tend to think of the technology fix for all problems. Maybe I watch too much SciFi. My good friend Dr Santilli as MagneGas has a solution to liquid waste and fuel in one tech. http://www.magnegas.com and it cost less than half of what Gasoline cost today to produce from the ever present liquid waste of human or any animal culture. Several other groups have tech that can take trash piles and turn them into synthgas and fuel oil.
http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2007a/070201LadischBio.html
I only say this to indicate that the problems have technology fixes in place and ready for market and as for MagneGas they are going public soon I understand. I do not dispute your theory of planned kill off die off but I am also aware that the human spirit and invention and creativity is an awesome force which should not be underestimated in the grand scheme of things.
Vortexentity,
While I don’t doubt your benign intentions for wanting a technofix for our various energy conundrums, you’re kind of missing the overall point. Kevin made a post and there was some good discussion of this idea a short while ago. The crux of the issue is this: even if Magnegas (or whatever techofix) is for real, all it will do is enable humans to further overpopulate and ruin the planet. In the end, it’s our Western industrial, consumer/fascist culture that is fucked at its core. It’s unredeemable. In reality, all Magnegas would mean is that our current taskmasters would be able to dominate more of us until we blow everything up.
– Mike Lorenz