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To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (13695)	8/24/2000 5:09:34 PM
From: Zach E.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Heinz, Interesting list. I'm not sure how accurate it is, given that Lincoln was assassinated in 1863 is definitely wrong (it was 1865). Funny joke at the end, though. Zach

To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (13695)	8/24/2000 5:28:01 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Looks like Bubba is tapping the SPR in trade for heating oil: biz.yahoo.com Thursday August 24, 5:04 pm Eastern Time US fills half of Northeast heating oil reserve (UPDATE: Recasts with more details of storage locations, Richardson comments) By Tom Doggett WASHINGTON, Aug 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. Government moved forward with its plans to establish a two-million-barrel heating oil reserve for Northeast this winter, signing a contract Thursday with Equiva Trading to fill half the emergency stockpile, the Energy Department announced. The Clinton administration is setting up the reserve to counter supply disruptions and avoid high prices in the region which consumes the most heating oil nationwide. Equiva Trading, which is joint marketing arm for Texaco (NYSE:TX - news), Shell Oil (quote from Yahoo! UK & Ireland: SHEL.L) and state owned Saudi Aramco, will deliver one million barrels of heating oil to the reserve's storage tanks in New Haven, Conn. The Energy Department did not receive enough favourable bids to fill the entire reserve like it wanted, so it will again ask oil companies next week for best and final offers for the remaining one million barrels of heating fuel, a Department official said. The Department will then announce which firm or firms will deliver the rest of the heating oil to the emergency reserve's storage facilities in Woodbridge, N.J., the official said. The heating fuel is scheduled to be delivered to both sites beginning in October. The government is not paying cash for the heating oil or the storage tanks, but will instead exchange crude oil from the 571-million-barrel Strategic Petroleum Reserve for the fuel and facilities. Last week, the government signed contracts with Amerada Hess Corp. (NYSE:AHC - news), Equiva Trading and Morgan Stanley Capital Group to provide the storage tanks in the New York Harbour area and New Haven to hold the emergency stockpile. Half the heating oil will be stored in New Haven and other half in the New York Harbour. The storage terminals have tanker, barge, truck or pipeline connections, making it possible to move the stockpiled heating oil into the market within 10 days if the government decided to tap the reserve. U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson has expressed concern that heating oil inventories in the Northeast will be too low this winter and that there's a possibility of shortages. Heating oil prices are expected to be high. The government is setting up the reserve on a temporary basis for this winter and possible next winter, if it exercises its option to extend the contracts. Congress must still pass legislation to establish the reserve on a permanent basis. Lawmakers will take up such a bill when they return from their summer recess next month.

To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (13695)	8/24/2000 5:38:55 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

<<Lincoln was assassinated in 1863>> Hmmm, was that in the same history book that says that Algore invented the internet?<G>

To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (13695)	8/25/2000 4:34:45 AM
From: S. maltophilia	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

<<And here's the kicker... A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland. A week before Kennedy was shot, he was in Marilyn Monroe.>> Gawd, I hope not. MM died in 1962.