08/10/10
At CNS News and U.S. Dept of Energy
You're Going to be Very Interested or Very Bored by This Information
Act Now on Terror Threat to Key Oil Routes, Say Experts
| A Japanese oil tanker was damaged recently in the Straits of
Hormuz. Did you know that? Did you hear that the damage was "caused by a wave." Do you know where the Straits of Hormuz is? Do you care? Did you know 40% of the world's tanker-borne oil transits the Strait of Hormuz. Al Qaeda has claimed credit for damaging the Japanese tanker. Iran has batteries of surface-to-surface missiles overlooking the Strait. Iran also has a fleet of small submarines and fast torpedo boats in its Navy. Are you getting concerned about the price of gasoline and heating oil? Now would you like to know more about the Straits of Hormuz? CNS News has a good article here. Be sure to come back here. I have another link below to a Department of Energy article about more ocean choke points where pirates, bad-guys and gomers can bottle up seaborne commerce and make life difficult and expensive for all of us if we're not prepared to sail out and slit their scurvy throats.
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World Oil Transit Chokepoints
| As promised, here is an
article from the U.S. Department of
Energy, prepared by the Energy Information Administration. It was
last updated in January 2008 during the evil Boosh Administration,
but I have carefully checked the data and there are no lies or
capitalistic anti-progressive statements that I could detect. It simply and objectively presents the threat, five world chokepoints, including the Straits of Hormuz and the Straits of Malacca that you already met in the article above, plus three others where pirates, bad-guys or hostile nations could bottle up or block commerce and cause great disruption and expense to us and the rest of the world. Earnest and heart-felt negotiations would probably not be effective in getting them to stop doing whatever they were doing, so I guess the point is, we need to be prepared to get seriously hostile about it.
Thus we have the United States Armed Forces, which a young man may join as a part of growing up. Here, he learns self discipline, reliability, courage, responsibility, leadership. He learns valuable technical and life skills. He has the opportunity to visit strange, foreign lands and meet new people, and kill them.
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