Comments on: Iran’s Oil Woes Threaten the Mullahs http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/irans-oil-woes-threaten-the-mullahs/ Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:42:39 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: EckerNet.Com » Blog Archive » Deep Thoughts With Kevin http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/irans-oil-woes-threaten-the-mullahs/comment-page-1/#comment-119376 EckerNet.Com » Blog Archive » Deep Thoughts With Kevin Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:25:56 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/irans-oil-woes-threaten-the-mullahs/#comment-119376 [...] Bad News : The financial industry is a mess. Good news : The side-effects puts Ahmadinejad in serious jeopardy. [...] [...] Bad News : The financial industry is a mess. Good news : The side-effects puts Ahmadinejad in serious jeopardy. [...]

]]> By: PAUL http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/irans-oil-woes-threaten-the-mullahs/comment-page-1/#comment-115666 PAUL Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:28:36 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/irans-oil-woes-threaten-the-mullahs/#comment-115666 Two final things, first Iran's inflation has far outpaced its growth in GDP which is why Iranians in Iran are seeking hard assets. Secondly its time to get real about our energy problem, clean coal is reasonable but relatively expensive, nuclear power will take at least 6 more years to have an effect even with the plants that are being built (which should be done in 4 to 5 years) but if no state wants to take on the nuclear waste it won't get any INVESTMENT money, and lastly drilling is a offshore drilling is a shameless attempt by oil companies to maximize profits (cuz it's cheaper to drill there) while having ZERO effect on crude oil prices. The oil hope for drilling is to find a large natural gas reserve which would still need the US to changing its energy infrastructure to support liquified natural gas (to transport it, to liquify it, to make new cars run on nat gas without modification, etc). Two final things, first Iran’s inflation has far outpaced its growth in GDP which is why Iranians in Iran are seeking hard assets. Secondly its time to get real about our energy problem, clean coal is reasonable but relatively expensive, nuclear power will take at least 6 more years to have an effect even with the plants that are being built (which should be done in 4 to 5 years) but if no state wants to take on the nuclear waste it won’t get any INVESTMENT money, and lastly drilling is a offshore drilling is a shameless attempt by oil companies to maximize profits (cuz it’s cheaper to drill there) while having ZERO effect on crude oil prices. The oil hope for drilling is to find a large natural gas reserve which would still need the US to changing its energy infrastructure to support liquified natural gas (to transport it, to liquify it, to make new cars run on nat gas without modification, etc).

]]> By: PAUL http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/irans-oil-woes-threaten-the-mullahs/comment-page-1/#comment-115664 PAUL Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:17:28 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/irans-oil-woes-threaten-the-mullahs/#comment-115664 You have got to be kidding Austin. Its time you open a history book because Iraq was never in range of getting Tehran. Mostly because from the get go Arabs on the Iran-Iraq border that were supposed to help saddam's forces attacked the Iraqi Army instead. Then the Iraqi army was getting its butt kicked because they had inferior air force capability. However after the first two years of the war Iran lost a large part of their air power whereas Saddam got helicopters, jets, and surface to surface missile technology as well as aerial info from the US; thus cementing the stale mate. I demand a certain level of factuality! You have got to be kidding Austin. Its time you open a history book because Iraq was never in range of getting Tehran. Mostly because from the get go Arabs on the Iran-Iraq border that were supposed to help saddam’s forces attacked the Iraqi Army instead. Then the Iraqi army was getting its butt kicked because they had inferior air force capability. However after the first two years of the war Iran lost a large part of their air power whereas Saddam got helicopters, jets, and surface to surface missile technology as well as aerial info from the US; thus cementing the stale mate.

I demand a certain level of factuality!

]]> By: John the Libertarian http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/irans-oil-woes-threaten-the-mullahs/comment-page-1/#comment-115512 John the Libertarian Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:05:21 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/irans-oil-woes-threaten-the-mullahs/#comment-115512 McCain's "all of the above" energy plan makes Obama's plan look like an emaciated vegan slurping wheat grass juice through a straw. Clean coal. More nukes. Drill, baby, drill. McCain’s “all of the above” energy plan makes Obama’s plan look like an emaciated vegan slurping wheat grass juice through a straw.

Clean coal. More nukes. Drill, baby, drill.

]]> By: hass http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/irans-oil-woes-threaten-the-mullahs/comment-page-1/#comment-115318 hass Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:31:01 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/irans-oil-woes-threaten-the-mullahs/#comment-115318 In fact, the belief that Iran suffers from dire economic conditions is one of four myths circulating about Iran's macroeconomic performance. Iran's economy has actually performed well in aggregate terms, with a moderate rate of growth in the last ten to fifteen years, including healthy GDP and per capita growth in investment. In the last three years, Iran's actual growth rate has averaged 5.8 percent. http://www.usip.org/pubs/usipeace_briefings/2007/0510_iran_economic_crisis.html In fact, the belief that Iran suffers from dire economic conditions is one of four myths circulating about Iran’s macroeconomic performance. Iran’s economy has actually performed well in aggregate terms, with a moderate rate of growth in the last ten to fifteen years, including healthy GDP and per capita growth in investment. In the last three years, Iran’s actual growth rate has averaged 5.8 percent.

http://www.usip.org/pubs/usipeace_briefings/2007/0510_iran_economic_crisis.html

]]> By: Welcome | Project on Middle East Democracy http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/irans-oil-woes-threaten-the-mullahs/comment-page-1/#comment-115265 Welcome | Project on Middle East Democracy Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:38:41 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/irans-oil-woes-threaten-the-mullahs/#comment-115265 [...] companion piece to the post below, Meir Javedanfar in Pajamas Media writes of the leverage that may soon be falling into the laps of any potential interlocutor with Iran. Even though Iran’s oil and gas income rose 31% this [...] [...] companion piece to the post below, Meir Javedanfar in Pajamas Media writes of the leverage that may soon be falling into the laps of any potential interlocutor with Iran. Even though Iran’s oil and gas income rose 31% this [...]

]]> By: fechancellor http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/irans-oil-woes-threaten-the-mullahs/comment-page-1/#comment-114597 fechancellor Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:10:49 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/irans-oil-woes-threaten-the-mullahs/#comment-114597 "His pledge to invest $150 billion in renewable energy could very well burst more bubbles around oil prices, thus pulling them to more unbearable lows for right-wingers in Iran — so low that the words “suspension of uranium enrichment” may turn from blasphemy into a realistic option." Obama will break Iran by building windmills, ethanol and some biodeisel? ROTFLMAO! Obama Mania has frozen the logic centers of too many Americans. More importantly, last December and January the IRGC Navy mock attacked US Navy surface ships in the Straits of Hormuz to keep the price of oil from falling then below $100.00 bbl. Look for Iran to do what it can with it's military in the Gulf and their Special Groups and Hezbollah knockoffs in Iraq to drive up the price on the coming dip. “His pledge to invest $150 billion in renewable energy could very well burst more bubbles around oil prices, thus pulling them to more unbearable lows for right-wingers in Iran — so low that the words “suspension of uranium enrichment” may turn from blasphemy into a realistic option.”

Obama will break Iran by building windmills, ethanol and some biodeisel? ROTFLMAO! Obama Mania has frozen the logic centers of too many Americans.

More importantly, last December and January the IRGC Navy mock attacked US Navy surface ships in the Straits of Hormuz to keep the price of oil from falling then below $100.00 bbl. Look for Iran to do what it can with it’s military in the Gulf and their Special Groups and Hezbollah knockoffs in Iraq to drive up the price on the coming dip.

]]> By: PoliGazette » Why Ahmadinejad Fears Falling Oil Prices http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/irans-oil-woes-threaten-the-mullahs/comment-page-1/#comment-114337 PoliGazette » Why Ahmadinejad Fears Falling Oil Prices Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:21:24 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/irans-oil-woes-threaten-the-mullahs/#comment-114337 [...] Javedanfar explains for Pajamas Media why Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s President, is so afraid of falling oil [...] [...] Javedanfar explains for Pajamas Media why Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s President, is so afraid of falling oil [...]

]]> By: Teplost http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/irans-oil-woes-threaten-the-mullahs/comment-page-1/#comment-113564 Teplost Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:53:10 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/irans-oil-woes-threaten-the-mullahs/#comment-113564 "I look forward to a reckoning one day." Blogdog, you and I both. “I look forward to a reckoning one day.”
Blogdog, you and I both.

]]> By: BlogDog http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/irans-oil-woes-threaten-the-mullahs/comment-page-1/#comment-113514 BlogDog Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:11:21 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/irans-oil-woes-threaten-the-mullahs/#comment-113514 I'd like to congratulate the people of Iran and Jimmy Carter for forcing out the terrible, awful Shah who ran a secret police force was responsible for ... being a BAD man I guess. Thank goodness the Iranians are enjoying the prosperity and freedom their revolution brought about. In the non-snarky vein, I still bridle at the act of war the "students" of the Ayatollah perpetrated against the United States which has never been answered. I look forward to a reckoning one day. I’d like to congratulate the people of Iran and Jimmy Carter for forcing out the terrible, awful Shah who ran a secret police force was responsible for … being a BAD man I guess.
Thank goodness the Iranians are enjoying the prosperity and freedom their revolution brought about.

In the non-snarky vein, I still bridle at the act of war the “students” of the Ayatollah perpetrated against the United States which has never been answered. I look forward to a reckoning one day.

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