Bending the Third Rail
Because We Should, We Can, We Do
Friday, August 18, 2006
Progress
And Iraq has the third largest petroleum reserves in the world?
Iraq has doubled the money allocated for importing oil products in August and September to tackle the country’s worst fuel shortage since Saddam Hussein’s 2003 ouster, a senior Iraqi official said Thursday. Even though Iraq has the world’s third-largest proven oil reserves, it is forced to depend on imports because of an acute shortage of refined products such as gasoline, kerosene and cooking gas. Sabotage of pipelines by insurgents, corruption and aging refineries have been blamed.
I've been reading a lot of stories about long gas lines in Baghdad. The lack of progress in restoring infrastructure to even Saddam levels is likely doing more than politics to cause civil disruptions and fighting.
Written at 10:20 AM by Greyhair.
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