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2006-04-22 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran to rely on domestic gasoline from September
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Posted by Steve White 2006-04-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 When's the new moon in September?

Moon? We don' need no steenkin' moon!
Posted by PBMcL 2006-04-22 00:35||   2006-04-22 00:35|| Front Page Top

#2 new = none
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-04-22 00:38||   2006-04-22 00:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Try filling the tank when Iranian production goes to zero.
Posted by ed 2006-04-22 00:45||   2006-04-22 00:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Yep. My bad.
Posted by PBMcL 2006-04-22 00:46||   2006-04-22 00:46|| Front Page Top

#5 So Mahmoud has something planned for late August that will result in immediate loss of international gasoline to Iran. Strike and hunker down.
Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-04-22 10:26||   2006-04-22 10:26|| Front Page Top

#6 and the breaking news of a Russia-Iran agreement on enrichment buys Mamhoud the couple of months he needs.

The "agreement" gets him off the April 28 deadline and will be worth months of stalling. He"ll even agree to "inspections" to buy this time.

Late August it is.
Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-04-22 10:33||   2006-04-22 10:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Ummmmm - lessee. They're building gasoline refineries in Iran so they won't need imports.

They've set a deadline of September, so they're probably planning something nasty for August or September that they think might get their gasoline imports cut off.

And they expect to protect their new refineries how, exactly?

Just sayin', 's all.
Posted by  Barbara Skolaut"> Barbara Skolaut  2006-04-22 12:07|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]  2006-04-22 12:07|| Front Page Top

#8 It's just a cover for getting a rationing system in place for whenever it may be needed. Like maybe next month after the fireworks begin and the insurers for the gasoline tankers won't let them enter the Persian Gulf.

As for processing uranium "on Russian soil" and other delaying tactics, they are all irrelevant unless unfettered short-notice inspections are allowed. If Ahmadinejad knows what's good for him (and there are no signs of that), he will press for a stable situation before the fall 2006 U.S. elections are over. A President Bush with nothing to lose politically will not be healthy for Ahmadinejad. Personally, I expect the fireworks to begin sometime in the next month or so.
Posted by Darrell 2006-04-22 14:59||   2006-04-22 14:59|| Front Page Top

#9 The issue here is that gasoline sells for about 10c a liter in Iran and they need to import a lot of it at a cost of about 80c a liter. The government has to subsidize the difference.

With rising oil prices Iran should have plenty of spare cash to subsidize the necessary imports. So this is probably just an accounting problem - the budget says they have x dollars, when in reality they have x+y dollars.

OTOH that extra money may be leaking away due to corruption, which leads to the paradoxical situation that as the price of oil and hence the price of imported gasoline goes up, Iran can afford to import less gasoline.

Rationing would likely spark riots, so they won't do unless they have to.

My prediction is Ahmadinejad magically finds the money to pay for imports after September.
Posted by phil_b">phil_b  2006-04-22 16:54|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]  2006-04-22 16:54|| Front Page Top

#10 Nice gasoline storage tanks ya got there, Mahmoud. Be a shame if anything happened to 'em.
Posted by SteveS 2006-04-22 18:48||   2006-04-22 18:48|| Front Page Top

#11 I agree Steve, sounds like new targets to me.
Posted by Beau 2006-04-22 21:19||   2006-04-22 21:19|| Front Page Top

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