Hijacking of one ship now and then won’t have any effect on oil prices. It would be quite easy to take out an approaching pirate ship with a hand held rocket launcher.
Dave, tell me about it! They still don’t want to pay some money to put some sort of artillery/security on these cargo ships. My friend’s cousin is in the navy (naval intelligence) and his ship just got assigned to assist in patrolling the waters by Somalia so he’ll be there for about half a year.
Chelsea Clinton is engaged to marry a Goldman Sachs investment banker, Marc Mezvinsky, whose father, Ed Mezvinsky, was a former Iowa Representative and released from federal prison last year after pleading guilty in 2002 to charges of bank & wire fraud.
In other news, Mike Huckabee apparently had commuted the sentence of the prime suspect in the Washington State shooting of 4 cops. The sentence was commuted a few years ago when he was governor of Arkansas and the perp was doing time there.
Per a pretty good article on Bloomberg, quoting French Navy figures, pirates seized 37 ships out of 193 attacked ytd. Lower hit rate than last year because of more navy patrols.
DIBS, last thing super tanker wants to do is engage in a fire fight – ie very easy the whole thing goes kaboom!!!!!!!!! Lastly, isn’t that good news for oil prices – ie that spikes the prices
Dave, I thought the ship that the pirates tried to seize a week or so ago – for the second time no less – was armed this time, and fought back and won?
m4l – tanker contains 2mm barrels of oil, a little under 2.5% of global daily consumption, i.e. not enough to make a big difference on its own.
Hijacking of one ship now and then won’t have any effect on oil prices. It would be quite easy to take out an approaching pirate ship with a hand held rocket launcher.
I say blow them up and leave them in the water.
Dave, tell me about it! They still don’t want to pay some money to put some sort of artillery/security on these cargo ships. My friend’s cousin is in the navy (naval intelligence) and his ship just got assigned to assist in patrolling the waters by Somalia so he’ll be there for about half a year.
Heather, see if you can take advantage of the situation – ie make the new landlord drop rent. chaos comes opportunity
Chelsea Clinton is engaged to marry a Goldman Sachs investment banker, Marc Mezvinsky, whose father, Ed Mezvinsky, was a former Iowa Representative and released from federal prison last year after pleading guilty in 2002 to charges of bank & wire fraud.
In other news, Mike Huckabee apparently had commuted the sentence of the prime suspect in the Washington State shooting of 4 cops. The sentence was commuted a few years ago when he was governor of Arkansas and the perp was doing time there.
Per a pretty good article on Bloomberg, quoting French Navy figures, pirates seized 37 ships out of 193 attacked ytd. Lower hit rate than last year because of more navy patrols.
haha cgar – but i forgot the remote which rendered the tv useless!!!
DIBS, last thing super tanker wants to do is engage in a fire fight – ie very easy the whole thing goes kaboom!!!!!!!!! Lastly, isn’t that good news for oil prices – ie that spikes the prices
Dave, I thought the ship that the pirates tried to seize a week or so ago – for the second time no less – was armed this time, and fought back and won?