Turn on the news. What did you hear today? The big story was the destruction of a mosque in Iraq and the reaction that it caused among Shiite Muslims in Iraq. Right now, CNN is highlighting the low-key Mardi Gras that New Orleans after Katrina will celebrate next week. It's not even Mardi Gras yet. A port deal was approved giving operation of 6 US ports to a Dubai company, and legislators are griping about it. ABC has up front the story of some prima donna having breast cancer. The local news is all in arms about the euthanizing of two black bears at a local zoo because one bit a boy; this after we found out about how Chesterfield's supervisors and other officials have been flying extravagantly (or vainly, to use Carly Simon's term) all over the place at taxpayer expense. Some of this is relatively important. It seems the lives of prima donnas and murder cases of lily white young females dominates the news.
All miss the big one. Our civilization almost bought the farm today. Some suicide bombers came into Abqaiq terminal and blew themselves up. They only blew up some minor stuff. If they had blown up the pipeline from Mideast oil to the Persian Gulf, a huge amount of oil would have been taken off the market. This would have caused skyrocketing oil and petrol costs all over the place and would have caused massive shortages as well. Much economic trade would have ground to a halt amidst the $300 a gallon oil and $9.50 petrol. Look at EV World and you will see what I mean.
It's time the hypermedia quit with the murders, the divas and other Hollywood personalities, and the continual harping on tragedies that have already happened such as Katrina. They need to focus more on peak oil, and to throw these other things aside and give stories like today's Saudi attack top billing.
