Excuse me if I question the reliability of the source of this report (oil industry sources). A guerrilla attack is verrrry convenient explanation for the oil industry.

Oh, and surprise, another pipeline has ruptured in Bolivia and is spilling oil into a River. We are told this incident was caused by a flash flood.

Attack Main Colombian Oil Pipeline

Source: Xinhua English Newswire

Publication date: Jan 28, 2000

The flow of oil for export through the Ca no LImon-Covenas oil pipeline, the most important pipeline of Colombia, was interrupted by a new attack launched by National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas, oil industry sources said on Friday.

The sabotage affects the movement of 430,000 barrels a day through the central oil pipeline of Colombia, that takes the crudes from the Cusiana fields, in the northeast of the country, to the Covenas oil exporting port in the Caribbean Sea.

The ELN, the second guerrilla force in the country, is carrying out a powerful campaign of sabotage against electric energy towers and pipelines to pressure the government to grant it a demilitarized zone where it would make peace negotiations with the Colombian government. The Cano Limon-Covenas oil pipeline, that moves 120,000 barrels of oil every day, has been attacked four times this month with explosives.

The Colombian Oil Company (Ecopetrol) and the international companies exported last year three billion dollars worth of oil, very significant for a country that only produces 800,000 barrels a day.

Link:

http://beta.newsreal.com/cgi-bin/NewsService?osform_template=pages/newsrealStory&ID=newsreal&storypath=News/Story_2000_01_31.NRdb@2@19@3@709&path=News/Category.NRdb@2@7@2@2

Flood Breaks Bolivia Oil Pipeline

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- A flash flood broke a crude oil pipeline, spilling hundreds of barrels of oil into the Desaguadero River that flows into Lake Poopo, the government reported Wednesday.

The pipeline is operated by Transredes, which is partially owned by Enron. Transredes sent several experts to help contain the oil and the damage it is causing to a river inhabited by pink flamingoes and other birds.

http://www.newsday.com/ap/rnmpin1q.htm

-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), February 02, 2000

Answers

Regardless of the veracity of the reporting, ain't it interesting that part of the above reports come from the Xinhua (Communist Mainland China) news agency? Now that Carter & Clinton's Commie buddies have effective control of the Panama Canal...perhaps they're going for all of Central and South America. PS. Don't forget their new 'presence' in the Bahamas--just a stone's throw from USA shores.

It's wonderful living in such a New World (Dis)Order--We should all start learning (Communist) Chinese and Russian. And to all you Commie loving morons--PLEASE--don't bother! You won't wake up until they've taken over Mexico and have their tanks massed on the Texas border!

-- ThrowOUT (AllCommieLoving@Traitors.com), February 02, 2000.

I used to live in Colombia. Leftist guerillas have been attacking oil pipelines on a weekly basis for years. no big deal.

-- JoseMiami (caris@prodigy.net), February 02, 2000.

Carl,

I tend to agree with your thinking that what have been given as reasons for many of the oil-pipeline related problems are not all that reliable or forthright. But the point that needs to be cried out is not just the price of oil/ oil stocks, etc., or any reasons behind what is taking place, but the fact that the oil supply is quickly dwindling. I believe a crisis is developing rapidly -- is in fact sneaking up on the public. The situation is probably much more ominous than it appears. How much longer until the dam breaks and the situation gets out of hand is not known. But at this pace it could be soon. All this talk about launching some investigation into price fixing when it is obvious that the real reason stems from the fact that very little oil is actually available. My feeling is that things are much graver than they appear to be. Unfortunately...

-- Patrick Lastella (Lastella1@aol.com), February 02, 2000.

Patrick, thanks for the post. I hope you're not right. However, I must agree with you that indications are not good. Frankly, I would much prefer to see the typical petroleum industry greed and windfall profit taking, than a possible disaster of untold proportions....

-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), February 02, 2000.