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To: Dayuhan who wrote (98066)5/12/2003 9:45:18 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Even recognizing that cooking oil has nothing to do with petroleum (how it got into the story is a mystery), this seems odd. Does Iraq have no capacity at all to refine the stuff that’s overflowing in the storage tanks to serve it’s own needs?


From what I've read, a limited capacity, as some of the refineries were looted. They are working on getting the others restarted. One gets the impession that the removal of the Ba'ath party collapsed every institution in the country...except for the Shi'ite mullahs and mosques.



To: Dayuhan who wrote (98066)5/12/2003 9:45:47 PM
From: quehubo  Respond to of 281500
 
The last I heard was that some refining capacity exists but much of the capacity has been damaged by looters.

The Iraqi looters did more damage than combat operations did it seems.


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