lunes, octubre 04, 2004

El G7 admite que no sabe cuanto petróleo queda

En una noticia que puede provocar pánico pronto en los mercados del mundo, los ministros de finanzas de los siete países más industrializados (EU, Japón, Francia, Italia, Alemania, Canadá, el Reino Unido) se juntaron hoy en Washington D.C. para de una vez por todas saber cómo manejar los precios del petróleo. En la noche, después de saber qué sucede - según ellos - verán al ministro de finanzas de China...

Reuters informa:

"Ministers are seeking energy market transparency to discover if world oil supplies may be scantier than they thought in May when they urged producers to open the spigots…
Another G7 official suggested the rise in oil costs was rooted in such fundamental factors as over-estimated supplies and was not solely due to speculation.
There is "a recognition that oil resources are scarcer than was thought a few years ago," the official said. "We agree there is a need for more transparency on the potential supply of various areas." If scarcity is the chief culprit, the oil price shock may not prove as temporary as hoped, the official said..."

Michael Ruppert, una analista, cuenta qué puede pasar:

"Oil has broken $50 a barrel. Financial pundits such as T. Boone Pickens have said that we will see $60 oil before we see $40 oil again (if ever). In the G7 and around the world from the Philippines, to Brunei, to Scotland, to New Zealand, to China, to Thailand, to Japan, to Britain, to the US, many nations are either urgently looking at and discussing impending economic collapse, blackouts and food shortages. Others are already experiencing blackouts, brownouts, power cutbacks, or projecting possible lethal power outages this winter. Economic concerns may very soon be pushed aside by issues of simple survival. China's food production has been plummeting for years and overall the entire planet is yielding less and less food which requires ten calories of hydrocarbon energy for every calorie eaten. Two examples: In New Zealand, the news website stuff.co.nz reported on October 1 that the country's oil supplies were "on a knife edge". In the Philippines on September 25, the Manila Bulletin Online ran a story headlined, "Energy Chief: Gov't Working to Address looming Crisis". India has begun hoarding oil, paying above-market prices to create a "strategic petroleum reserve" like America's. All this is happening with a current global population of six and one half billion, expected to exceed nine billion by mid-century..."

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