tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post1092699356894853554..comments2023-11-03T09:36:22.100-04:00Comments on In From the Cold: He May Get His WishGeorge Smileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07049707648660651119noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-56109288599827194032011-02-26T20:57:36.995-05:002011-02-26T20:57:36.995-05:00well, the oil shales in Canada and North Dakota ma...well, the oil shales in Canada and North Dakota may help if the environmentalists are kept quiet, as may Alaska, if Murkowski and her oil company friends get their way. Heck, even the coal mines in PA may reopen, as they did under Carter.<br /><br />What this will affect is not so much the US as the third world, where oil prices will cause an increase in food prices (on top of the wheat harvest problems in Pakistan and China). <br /><br />But will the real long term effect of the Middle East problems make China more eager to expand into the oil fields of Central Asia and the Spratlys? That's the real question.<br /><br />And of course, lots of Middle Eastern oil workers are from Asia: local papers report 26000 Filipinos and 16000 Chinese are being evacuated from Libya alone....if Saudi etc. falls, that means a million Pinoys, Indians, Pakistanis and Indoys no longer sending money home to their families....Nancy Reyeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14910134058143426327noreply@blogger.com