“If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents: outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.” - Henry Rollins

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Notes on World Energy

The elections in Nigeria matter to you. Nigeria is the United States' fourth largest supplier of crude oil, and within the next 8 years over 25% of all our oil imports will come from Nigeria. The less stable their government is, the more their oil is going to cost. That polling HQ's are being blown up this weekend while the country attempts to conduct free elections if disheartening at best (see: Fucking Scary)

Gazprom is biggest natural gas company in the world, and most Americans have never heard of it. Essentially owned and operated by the Russian government, it allows the Kremlin to exert an astounding amount of political and economic control over the European Union.

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