Basra Fighting Slows Down Southern Iraq's Oil Output

WSJ ^

[maquiladora]

The continuing military operations in the oil hub Basra have slowed down Iraq's crude-oil production and exports from southern oil fields, an Iraqi official with the South Oil Company and a shipping agent said Thursday.

Meanwhile, a bomb Thursday struck the key Zubair-1 crude pipeline -- the largest pipeline to the Basra export terminal -- and will likely affect exports "heavily," the South Oil Company official said.

[Larry R. Johnson]

This points out the problems caused by these idiot anti-American “enviromental” fascists. “No, you can’t drill for oil in Alaska, of the Gulf of Mexico, nor build more refineries...just use corn”. What a lot of crap! (BTW, corn is for food, feeding to livestock or making Whiskey). The enviro-nazis (and weak-kneed politicians) have made the U.S. too heavily dependant on foreign oil. (Is there something wrong with the Freerepublic clock today?)