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Libya Warns Oil-Fire Is "Out Of Control" - What 1.5 Million Gallons Of Burning Gasoline Looks Like
UPDATE: Caught on tape... A second fuel tank in the Libyan capital Tripoli has caught fire, which Libya's National Oil Company has described as "out of control".
A dark cloud hangs over Tripoli today... but this time it's physical not metaphorical. As NBC reports, a rocket hit a fuel storage tank containing 1.5 million gallons of gasoline, triggering a major blaze as rival brigades of former rebels fought for control of Tripoli's main airport. A huge cloud of black smoke billowed across the capital's skyline as the blaze burned "out of control," and firefighters had withdrawn from the area.
#Tripoli #Libya Photo no.2 of now worsening fire at oil storage tanks nr. airport. Frontline Zintani Misurati fight. pic.twitter.com/55kVpGQUrG
— Anita McNaught (@anitamcnaught) July 28, 2014
Fire caused by rocket rages at Tripoli's largest oil depot http://t.co/xk1mCJTk2U pic.twitter.com/HDZsDSIyug
— Circa (@Circa) July 28, 2014
And cooling the natural gas tanks...
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Ooops. Someone should do something about that.
Global warming?
Bullish for Boots & Coots.
#DICKCHENEYISWINNING
Must be those pesky Russian artillery units again.
"... quell the violence, Experts say it's the worst they've seen since the fall of Muammar Ghadaffi..."
Since the fall of Ghadaffy? He didn't fall - he was pushed.
Another fine, Oded-Yinon-inspired mess.
So why can't Hamas be that smart? Forget the obsolete Ruskie shit.
Lob a few morter shells. Hilarity ensues.
Hey Kaiser...
You think that carbon footprint about equals on week's private jetting about by Al Gore, or what?
PS I love it what the flan comes together
Coldest July on record in parts of the Midwest. Thank Al Gore for global warming.
Haven't heard from Jim in Min for a while. Must still be iced in. Bummer.
So are you saying that weather in the Midwest reflects the global average air and sea temperatures as a whole? I'm just asking, because the statement infers that this is the case. Would the fact that the high arctic has broken every heat record in the book for over 6 months now explain why the polar circulation has been shifted south over our upper Midwest? The Jet stream has unglued due to lack of temperature differential between high and lower latitudes, meaning a warmer arctic. Notice also the record ongoing forest fires in British Columbia, Alberta and all across Sibera east of the Urals. Like any system in Physics, a temperature of the whole is not the same as a localized temperature. It may be cool here outside today, but how then explain the record sea temperatures across the vast western pacific, including deeper and deeper waters. Or the melting of Greenland flushing fresh water into the Atlantic. etc. etc.
I just once would like it made clear that weather is not climate. I think all responsible weather men and climatologists would agree. This statement is not political because the laws of physics aren't political. Average temperatures of the entire earth system are recording record after record to the upwards direction. Measureable facts.
Jack:
Respectfully . . . . all the Alarmists are freaking out because the temperatures of the Earth - worldwide - are no longer rising.
Somehow, your post doesn't acknowledge that "measurable fact."
Sorry sir, but you are way off on this one.
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Hamas are useless idiots of the zionist occupiers.
As for Libya, take a bow NATO, david Cameron, Sarkozy, Berri, HItlery, Harper.
I love how exasperated talking head retards are at this violence. HOWD THAT HAPPEN? With any luck the tribes will rise again.
Just a nice infrastructure rebuild from your cuddly Zionist USA. Even the Marshall Plan took some time.
This doesn't inch up oil markets a bit, strange.
That's because there's a glut of that shit already. I mean really, who keeps 1.5 MILLION gallons of gas just sitting around? A fuel depot with 300,000 gallons I can see, but 1.5 mil?
By the way, is the US going to send in the EPA? Is Greenpeace rushing in to protest this? The Sierra Club? Audubon Society perhaps? PETA? ...somebody? Just because we yanked our embassy staff doesn't mean we should deny the Libyans the benefit of the pollution police.
...who keeps 1.5 MILLION gallons of gas just sitting around?
Why the US .gov keeps petrocarbons stocked up - just in case Israel needs them.
And who did the pushing?
Calling williambanzai7. Can you Photoshop Putin firing a rocket into the storage tanks?
Their democracy is pretty hot if you know what I mean!
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28521551
I just thought of something hilarious, okay okay okay,
So.
HIllary becomes the next president and she blames Obama, wait wait, okay okay.
She blames Obama for the state of international affairs and says, okay, she says she inherited this mess, so she shrugs her shoulders and goes on 72 spa trips in her first year as presidentrix.
I think this is pretty much the plan. The hilarity of it is only for those who've taken the red pill.
goes on 72 spa trips in her first year as presidentrix...
And what important Department of Education program will she assign her spouse to?
Okay, Okay, dietary, drug avoidance, physical education / activity, global warming, earth first / recycling and prepubescent sexual awareness programs have all been cycled through. So, my guess would be the first ex-POTUS turned First Un-Lady will further promote the program espousing the virtues of parental spying skills for fun and profit. Not to say all previous endeavors are without some merit, but the current road of further degradation of US youth would / will proceed unimpeded.
Jmo.
Algore is crying at the wonton harm to our earth...well, actually he's crying because he can't figure out a way to con subjects on this crisis. I hope he doesn't get tears on his fine leather in his limo or private jet.
Confession.
I caused like damage to the Earth one time when I dropped my tray at an outdoor Chinese buffet.
Another feather in the Obama Administration's diplomatic cap.
So much for my vacation destination, I hear that Tel Aviv is nice this time of year.
The real bargains are in Gaza, it's a steal.
Thanks for the tip, I'll have to check out that nice B & B I saw on the Hamas tourism website.
Bomb & Barrage
tel aviv check out the arab baby shish kebab marrinated in a dense ge depleted uranium sauce.
full kosher paper work and un kill licence
yum yum
Good tip. Tanks a lot.
I would but I dont have enough hose to read Libya
Sure glad Bathhouse Barry liberated Libya. FORWARD
It was Putins fault. I have photos of him lighting the match that started it..... Honest!!!
Oh and it is a war crime, and erm, erm, erm, well he did it, just don't ask to see the photo until I've rubbed it over a bit of sand paper
Let me guess: bullish, right?
Except for Gold and Silver.
And oil unch of course. Great for stawks tho.
supply and demand, that's why they are always blowing up crackers in us refineries.
That's racist.
I upvoted you because of the tits.
i also like tits
At 1.49 euro's per liter... that makes...
well...
enough to call it a expensive bum fire :)
i strongly suggest to you to change gaz station.
Better get down there and fill up before it's 3.99 a liter.
You know how this game is played...
You should buy your gasoline in America.
Buy oil
Nope, not buy oil.
This is part of what's going on in Ukraine too -- meaning a government that wants Western intervention.
The day NATO troops arrive in Libya is the day they will be assigned to get oil flowing again. The Libyan gov't has already asked for outside help to quell this "environmental disaster".
Anything it takes to get foreigners to come in and make the Libyan govt victorious over the rebels will also make oil flow.
In this context, don't be too sure about who started that fire.
Even worse is the situation with refining capacity. Pre-war. it was no great shakes, like 400kbpd or something. What is it now? Half would surprise. Oil is a fine thing, but it don't make mom's station wagon go.
Mom's in Libya don't matter.
Only Libyan crude oil flowing to Italy refineries matters.
Au contraire, mon ami. Crude exports are the hard-currency revenue item, but that’s pretty macro and long-term. In the short term, keeping the locals happy (or at least less unhappy) is paramount to victory. I guarantee that if the locals, particularly your militiamen, can’t fill up their vehicles, they will be very unhappy. Plus it sets into motion a whole cascade, including problems with delivery of food, water, medicine etc. leading to more unhappiness among heavily armed moms. Not good for the “government.”
Perhaps a diversion of attention from Ukraine for the US.
The Nobel Prize Winner spreading sweetness and light everywhere - at least light.
Oh Now The FED have something to blame the bad economy, besides the weather lol
1.5 million gallons of burning gasoline looks like a "4" on the local gas station signs.
My neighbor burns that much idling his pickup in the driveway with the air on - and no one in it. To what end I have no idea. But, at least he got rid of the Hummer.
I was also thinking that 1.5 million gallons of burning gasoline looks like Al Gore's next vacation. Then I realized it would have to be jet fuel.
1.5 million gallons won't effect the price. That's about 1% of what the US imports every day.
Yeah, I know. Just having fun. Don't get your undies in a bunch over it.
when do the steel frame buildings start falling? a 911 bit of humor, no no really? has anyone checked with mylasia airline to see if another 777 is missing while in flight over libya, avoiding Ukraine skies?
I reckon the global warming Nazis will be all over this once they get done shutting down all the coal plants.....
That's only 37,000 barrels....no big deal
It actually takes about 80,000 barrels of oil to make 1.5 million gallons of gas. Still just a minor blip though.
What is that, about 0.01% of one day's global production?
Are Libyan exports really going to come back online? Oil fell $10 the last few weeks on the preise that this was going to happen, the Country is falling into chaos from what I'm reading but the Brentmarket isn't taking any notice, 100's dead the last two weeks....
As well as numerous armed caravans of fleeing colonialist diplomats. The embassies aren't closed, however. Operations are just suspended.
A nice little propaganda piece to try and wipe away the memory of Benghazi.
Is there video of the American "diplomats" fleeing for their lives? That might be useful for the opposition this fall.
didn't hillary give up her virginity in the battle for benghazi?? her sacrifice must not go un avenged. turn that embassy convoy around..think of the children!!
Yet another "Mission Accomplished".
The Middle East today is a direct result of the strategic plan of USREAL. Tragic.
No Gold In Canada anymore, No Gold in London, and they say there is no Gold in the USA unless part of financing for Spy Agencies since 1945.
So, Strategically if we have no Gold, how do we finance our future?
And Manufacturing is down to European Levels in the US.
So looks like we have Oil, Oil Refining, Oil Transportation, and Crazy Financial Schemes & US Fiat Expansion that no one can understand as Corporate Tax Base is Shrinking due to Inversion (off Shoring).
Is that a Strategy. More like I'll Gone Before It Crashes.
Mission Accomplished.
1.5 million gallons of gasoline x $3.65 gal = $5,475,000.00. gasp*
Do the Libyans actually refine gasoline or just export crude? Iran produces very little of their own gasoline, ironically. So it's not just the monetary loss but the ability to import that amount again. Then where do they store the new shipments?
Obamster to the rescue, as soon as he gets done playing golf.....
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Today, we just burn 1% of daily use, just for the fun, because last time we did it was 2001 & we missed the smell !
Out of control barbie, move along please.
Death and destruction left in the wake of the petrodollar hegemony.
Dear BRICS;
The sooner you pull the trigger, the sooner this madness ends*
Hugs,
The Rest of the World
*or reaches a violent and possibly Nuclear crescendo.
Would it be possible you are watching the convulsions of a dying petrodollar hegemony ? Maybe I am just daydreaming...
I imagine Libyans miss Gaddafi.
when the mossad jew creates kaos terror and death do not hate
pity him
it is a mental illness
read the tora
how would you feel after reading the tora
combine that with having your prepuce bitten off by a rabbi when you was a baby
is it any wonder wonder wonder.
hey ya
hey ya
magics magick
death cult kabba fuckin lism
these zionists are agents of satan it is all in the blood and a sickness of the head.
http://www.zengardner.com/male-circumcision-alters-brain-victims/#
so you, tony wilson, are officially an anti-semite.
so when you say, anti-zionism is not anti-semitism and that the israeli's 'admit they use this ploy' , what you are really saying is you are a jew hater , ALL jews at least, all male jews, and by extension---all jews------and that when you claim your anti-zionism is not anti-semitism, you are doing it to disguise your hatred of jews in general , becausee you know that destroying israel would be helpful to your quest to destroy the jewish people generally, as we all know that persecution of minorities as a method of scape goating is a likely outcome for ANY successful minority group, and jews having a reputation as that in the united states will have no benefit of a place to go to should anti-semites like you convince the public that they should destroy israel before you attempt to convince them of killing jewish americans.
people like you are why jews frequently leave judaism and assimilate, or leave as refugees and are forced elsewhere.
we've dealt with your kind before, we'll deal with you again.
Obviously there is a distinct difference between Anti Semitic and Anti Zionist.
I am an anti zionist but not anti semitic. And, Wilson is righ,t the Israelis used the trick to say one's the other when it's not.
Its that simple.
Wilson does get a bit Old Testament in his ravings, that I concede.
not hate moshe pity
i have love for many
but eye do pity the jew.
i cannot love him it is true
for he is a servant of satan.
he brings saturn hell to earth and kills anyone but his own.
but hate no
just pity
for the canker infected country of the mind that is the wondering who
A metaphor for the mideast.
Those Libyans and their lax fire regulations. What they really need is western intervention. Where do i sign up?
A mini-nuke could help stopping that fire.
It would vaporize all that gasaoline in a flash without poisoning the environment with toxic carbon black or carbon monoxide.
Camel Roast!....
Do they own enough carbon credit derivatives to cover that massive amount of global warming pollution they are creating?
I read the ISIS captured a little under a billion dollars in carbon credits when they took Mosul. Maybe they can trade.
Let it burn.
US getting very desperate to keep oil price above 100 USD ?
My hope of what the Fed does to the makets Wednsday.
Thank you, Hillary, our next anointed Satanist POTUS.
Was reading Arkancide.com.
The Clintons really are scum of the earth.
Too bad no one has any more credibility than she does.
Price of gasoline in libya was 46 U.S. cents a gallon. That Ghaddafi feller, eh, what a tyrant.
LA LA drivers burn 1.5 million gallons each Day.
And I do my share.
Muammar Gaddafi had his faults, as did Saddam, but the quality of life for the vast majority of people in Libya and Iraq before the Western Powers "liberated" them from dictatorship was infinitely better. Freeing the World to Death, by William Blum, should be required reading for all American high school students. Most of the rest of the world doesn't need to read it. They know it first hand.
Moreover, the "humanitarian crisis" used as the excuse for destroying the Libyan nation-state was itself made up and instigated by provocateurs. At worst, some government soldiers fired upon "demonstrators"....but that's all. One of the more blatant war crimes I can recall and there are plenty of those.
FU Laws of Ec.
TyleR, ban this cunt.
Yea, that band always has the best pyrotechnics. Cant wait till they tour here in the US.
Something about the smell of burning petroleum in the morning?
have to make oil prices go up
consumers aren't buying enough
must blow things up
drive oil prices higher - make bank account fatter
And I thought those little exploding targets were cool........
That was a very fuelish thing to do!
Al Gore says,
"Bullish for bicycles!"
Can be seen on a regular basis in Richmond, CA. No war required.
What difference does it make...Hillary to the rescue.
NATO's bombers fixed Libya and delivered democracy, freedom and closer ties to the EU wealth machine. America and the UK bombed Libya to democracy and freedom, now the average people are reaping the wealth and freedoms the bombs promised. Libya - Fixed! Syria - Fixed!, Ukraine - Fixed! Iraq - Super Fixed, Egypt - Fixed! See all the great good American bombs and shells can deliver! Someone on this board called me an anti-American for my lack of support for all these freedom spreading operations. Indeed, I can see my failings now, how could any patriot American NOT support the Afghan War, the Iraq War, The Libya Liberation, The Syria freedom fight, and the great NATO liberation of Ukraine!
All true patriots should stand behind Israel, Obama, Neocons and the tribe of bankers. This is what defines a true American Patriot!
"...the great NATO liberation of Ukraine!"
Google 'Holodomor', and it could give you some understanding of what Ukrainians fight for. I do not know if and to what extent there was intent, but it must have been a terrible period in Ukraine under Soviet leadership. You might want to dial down your sarcasm and not lump all these conflicts in one basket.
I can't recall his name but a learned ex-diplomat who knew Libya intimately for years said before the West killed The Colonel that if that happened, Libya would be overrun by warlords followed by civil war and devastation.
He was right. That's what is now happening. But Washington/Westminster/Paris/NATO went ahead anyway. What they wanted more than anything was some more WAR.
Yes, I concur with some of the undeniable and conclusive evidence expressed in this thread: This is Putin and his rebels. If they can down a plane with a single fart, imagine what they can do with a box of matches and some simple fuel tank. Moreover, boxes of matches signed "made in Russia" were found in the vicinity of this latest humanitarian crime scene. 5000 of the best CIA experts collecting satellite images in a nearby shish kebab, secret lab. Thanks to a 10 trillion dollar, pentagon satellite, all imagery was captures preemptively, one week before it took place. Steven Spielberg was not available for comments but his yet unwritten screenplay "Indiana Jones in the Kingdom of Vodka" is already nominated for 5 Oscars...
the airliner losses on the ground are much higher too, say did Gaddaffi have BUK missiles too?
So much for stealing Libyan oil plan to save the broke Socialist EU
Do not collect $200
Do not pass go.
Do not save the EU
Lose Libyan oil stream
Increase African defense spending
Mission accomplished
Hmm, this "Apocalypse" thing seems to be picking up speed.
Should I start scanning the horizon for 4 horsemen?
The first horsemen already came and the second one is just about here. There will only be 2 horsemen left.