Posted on 05/04/2010 1:12:55 AM PDT by Corky Boyd
I don’t want to diminish the problems with the oil spill, but we have lived through far worse and our waters and shoreline recovered.
During World War II, Nazi U-boats sank scores of oil tankers off the Atlantic Coast and the Gulf of Mexico. The Gulf of Mexico campaign began precisely 68 years ago today, May 4, 1942. In a little over a month they had sunk oil cargoes of over 600,000 barrels (one barrel equals 42 gallons), and by December 1943 when they sank the last ship in the Gulf, nearly 900,000 barrels of oil and oil products had been left in Gulf waters.
For comparison, if it takes 3 months to get the well under control, at the current estimated leakage....
(Excerpt) Read more at islandturtle.blogspot.com ...
“Operation Drumbeat” was one of the most successful Axis offensives of World War II and is virtually unknown today, in spite of the fact that it sank more ships, killed more people, and did more material damage than even Pearl Harbour.
how much of that 900k was burned off from those torpedo explosions?
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I had no idea. Thanks for posting.
http://www.history.navy.mil/docs/wwii/Q-ships.htm
SNIPPET - Quote:
Q-Ships (Anti-submarine vessels disguised as merchant vessels)
Related Resources: List of Q-Ships with links to their histories
Adapted from: “Eastern Sea Frontier War Diary,” October 1943, ch.2, “Queen Ships.” pp.9-34. Modern Military Branch, National Archives and Records Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740.
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“Operation Drumbeat”
http://www.uboat.net/ops/drumbeat.htm
The Alaska Pipeline still requires Oil Tankers from Valdez to Washington and California.
I would imagine a fairly substantial proportion.
> ... how much of that 900k was burned off from those torpedo explosions?
It’s odd that you would bring up torpedoes.
I found this article titled “US Orders Blackout Over North Korean Torpedoing Of Gulf Of Mexico Oil Rig” at http://texasfred.net/archives/6589
Think it’s another conspiracy theory piece?
Ping for further reading.
Thanks.
China’s oil demand is projected to grow by 80 percent between 2010 and 2030 due to its rapidly developing economy and in particular its growing middle class and exploding auto market.
China’s largest national, government-owned oil companies—CNPC, CNOOC, and Sinopec—have taken aggressive action over the last several years to secure oil abroad in an effort to cope with this growth and a looming global oil crunch. China’s recent overseas oil deals have the potential to deliver more than 7.8 billion barrels of oil to the country over the next several years.
This figure shows some of China’s largest, most recent oil deals, with a focus on 2009 and 2010 contracts. Highlighted among those are countries currently on the U.S. Department of State’s travel warning list for “dangerous or unstable” nations.
BP sell oil to china
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