Wednesday, May 25, 2005
International foreign policy?
'The pipeline that will change the world' is the heading of an article in today's 'Independent'.
It tells us that a 1000-mile oil pipeline has been completed that deliberately skirts Russia. The United States taxpayer is underwriting most of the $4bn it costs. Energy security can be a huge expense for national taxpayers - normally paid through military budgets.
"[The project's] architects and investors claimed the pipeline would shore up energy supplies in the US and Europe for 50 years, protecting our gas-guzzling way of life and easing our reliance on the House of Saud." http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=641172
Whether there could be an international foreign policy was a question here on May 4. However it looks as though this is a non-starter: one G8 country is prepared to spend $4bn to skirt another.
It tells us that a 1000-mile oil pipeline has been completed that deliberately skirts Russia. The United States taxpayer is underwriting most of the $4bn it costs. Energy security can be a huge expense for national taxpayers - normally paid through military budgets.
"[The project's] architects and investors claimed the pipeline would shore up energy supplies in the US and Europe for 50 years, protecting our gas-guzzling way of life and easing our reliance on the House of Saud." http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=641172
Whether there could be an international foreign policy was a question here on May 4. However it looks as though this is a non-starter: one G8 country is prepared to spend $4bn to skirt another.
# posted by IJ @ 3:17 AM 
