Chinese tiger has nothing in tank
Rowan Callick
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CHINA is running out of fuel. Police are guarding petrol stations in several inland provinces to prevent fights, as shortages of petrol and diesel are causing huge queues of trucks, buses and cars.

In Kunming, capital of the southwestern province of Yunnan, 1000 trucks are stranded.

A truck driver named Li told the Chuncheng Evening News he had been stranded at the Stone Tiger Gate petrol station for three days after searching for fuel in other places, but failing. He said his delivery date was way overdue.

Another driver, at Geiju city, said a job that would have taken one day in the past, now took three: one on the road, two queuing for fuel.

Nine days ago, a truck driver was reported to have been stabbed to death in central Anhui province after a row about queuing.

A few days earlier, at Ezhou in Hubei province, 100,000 people were stranded, unable to get to work, because city buses had run out of fuel.

Beijing has been insulated from the headache, and the wealthy coastal provinces are mostly better stocked, because the refineries are nearby.

The problem would intensify as winter approached, and was starting to affect exports, warned the Commerce Ministry, since diesel was crucial for shifting products to ports.

The system is suffering from pressure of demand to sustain its economic growth at the current 11.5per cent - with China now the second-biggest consumer of oil after the US.

Diesel imports rose 46.5per cent in the first nine months of the year, compared with the same period last year.

The other cause of the supply-demand mismatch, is the stuttering transition from government-controlled prices to market pricing.

The Government wishes to graduate towards a system that allows prices to move with international markets.

But inflation is at a 10-year high of 6.5per cent and the Government is reluctant to let oil, a key input for distribution of all products, float free as yet.

The two companies that dominate petrol and diesel sales, Sinopec and PetroChina, are state-controlled but also listed on stock markets, highly competitive, and anxious to become even more market-driven. Both pledged this week to boost their imports, especially diesel.

As inflation began to accelerate this year, the Government announced it was capping the prices of key commodities it still controlled, including oil, until the end of the year.

But it relented under strong pressure from Sinopec, PetroChina and other oil refiners and distributors, and conceded a 10per cent rise from this month.

Even after the 10 per cent rise, the price remains well beyond international levels, and China has to import about half its oil, for which it must pay world prices.

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Brist på bränsle i Kina
http://www.epochtimes.se/articles/2007/11/02/13461.html

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AFP - China says oil supply soon back to normal: report
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/071128/8/2rcj.html

Något håller på att hända i bakgrunden people:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/28/wor ... r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin

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självklart vill dom inte ha minsvepare i hamnen, som kan detektera deras system, eller lägga minor. Betyder inte mycket, kineserna är inte dumma i huvet precis, inte lika knäppa som amerikanarna är, finns inte så många Mc donalds i Kina heller.

Tydligen så ska det finnas planer på en konfrontation mellan Kina och USA, vem vet detta kanske är upptakten?!!?

Kina ska ju dessutom ta över rollen som världspolis efter USA!?

Jag vet att du refererar till Alan Watt men för att det ska hända så måste de först göra skit av USA, jag säger inte att de inte har lyckats väldigt väl men jag betvivlar starkt att de har lyckats tillräckligt väl.

Jag tror att NWO definitivt ligger efter med sin tidsplan. 1972 försökte Ford Foundation att USA skulle anamma "Declaration of Interdependance" (i Philadelphia av alla ställen) med en ny grundlag (typ: kommunistiska manifestet) och gissa vad, det funkade inte.

Jag måste säga att jag håller med Alan Watt i mycket det han säger men jag är något skeptisk till hans analyser, han av alla borde veta att de tvingas uppdatera sina planer hela tiden men det finns en viss risk med att läsa deras "policy papers" som inte är hemliga, de kan likagärna var desinformation snarare än ett exempel på deras arrogans.

Ungefär som den sekulära versionen av "du kan inget göra, det är ditt öde".

ok det fortsätter att triggas upp, bara vänta på att ryssarna uppgraderar till red alert. Det är spel om olja nu tror jag, Iran blir kanske snart inblandat. Kanske får se en nuke i NY iallafall, Bush måste fortfarande få med the congress.
oh sweet deja vu/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071130/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_china