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To: TimF who wrote (301022)	8/22/2006 5:08:54 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572391

Does it not strike you as odd that the country with the third largest oil reserves in the world has to import oil products? Not at all. A number of major oil exporters have to import gasoline or other refined products. Iran is one of them, but not the only one. Iran does? I don't think so......look under Industry, then Chemical Products: iran-export.com Look under Exports: cia.gov I really don't know why you harp on this minor issues, when there are serious related issues where there are real problems. Pipeline sabotage, corruption in the Iraqi oil industry, not to mention all of Iraq's other problems, are very serious. But for some reason you just love the "Iraq imports oil" headline, so much that you defend it to death, despite the fact that its not true and that the actual truth (that it imports refined products) is relatively unremarkable. Your argument just blows my mind away. You would sell your soul before you will admit you might be wrong. As of last year, Iraq was trying to increase its production of benzene, a product used in the manufacture of the refined products like gas and paints you claim Iraq has always imported: Iraq exports 1.6 million oil barrels daily Iraq, Economics, 8/10/2005 Iraq's oil minister Ibrahim Baher al-Oloum said that Iraq is to exporting 1.6 million barrels of oil daily in this phase, besides the local consumption estimated at 600,000 barrels daily. Baher al-Oloum said that the government in Iraq, where citizens are angry because of fuel shortages, is looking to produce 13 million liters of Benzene daily by the end of August, and 14 million liters by October. arabicnews.com As recently, I could understand if Iraq had no other problems and you where desperately searching for something negative about Iraq, but that's hardly the case. When you have a million real problems to point out, why seize on this non-issue? The reason I am harping on the refined products issue is because its a dramatic reminder of the disaster that Iraq has become since the invasion. Contrary to your premise, its not normal for an oil producer to have to import refined oil products. They should be produced as a part of the normal oil refinery process. But nothing has been normal in Iraq for the past three years. So even though Iraq does have oil refineries, they are mostly off line because of the fighting that has gone on for three straight years between the insurgents and the US and among the insurgents themselves......fighting that no one is able to stop.....and that means they have to import the refined oil products needed for local consumption rather than producing it themselves. It is the height of irony. And yes, having to import refined oil products is just one of the many problems facing Iraq.........but like I said earlier in this post, it makes a significant statement about Iraq in 2006.