<div> </div>
<div>All-</div>
<div> </div>
<div>First, though this will be a very unpopular view, I think gas is too cheap, even at $3.20 a gallon. It should be over 5 dollars a gallon, in my opinion, to force conservation and changes in technology to address both global warming and the eventual depletion of fossil fuels, both massive problems that are not being addressed substantively.
</div>
<div> </div>
<div>But back to why the USA needs to control Middle East oil supplies, my post forwarded below does not really make the case...</div>
<div> </div>
<div>If all oil currently used by the USA was sourced from Canada, the USA would still have overwhelming reasons to use force to secure Middle East oil:</div>
<div> </div>
<div>The world market for oil sets the price, and Canadian oil would become much more expensive if turmoil in the Middle East created doubt about or a reduction in that oil supply, which is to some extent happening now given the mess in Iraq.
</div>
<div> </div>
<div>US allies that are integrated into the global economy, and thus the economy of the USA, rely on Middle East oil supplies, so a disruption in these supplies can damage the US economy, even if the US does not directly rely on this source for oil.
</div>
<div> </div>
<div>The vast oil resources of the Middle East might come under the control of unfriendly regimes, as has already happened with Iran. The first Gulf War against Iraq was fought in part to protect US ally Saudi Arabia's vast oil resources from being threatened by Iraq. The fact that the Saudi royal family rules as a human rights denying dictatorship appears to receive scant focus in US media political propaganda, as long as the cozy economic relationship between the US and the Saudi royal family continues, exemplified by Saudi Prince Bandar "Bush" and the close to a trillion dollars that Saudis have invested in the US economy
</div>
<div> </div>
<div>I wonder, given that the barbarity of the beheadings carried out in Iraq during the Iraq war have received a lot of media attention, why do we almost never hear in the US media of the beheadings in Saudi Arabia carried out under the brutal reign of the Saudi royal family, with their well known use of torture and denial of basic rights, their treatment of women as second class citizens?
</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Anyway, if Middle East oil supplies were controlled mostly by Islamic regimes unfriendly to the West, this could create massive problems if this resource were used as an economic weapon against Western economies. This alone is a sufficient reason for the policeman of the world, the USA, to use its military force to ensure that the oil supplies in the Middle East flow to the West, and also Japan, China and India, nations now becoming more and more integrated into the global economy with US dependence on this multinational system.
</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Who now holds most of the US government debt? Japan and China.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Of course it goes without saying that part of the reason gas prices are overall so much higher now than just a few years ago is pressure on the global oil markets from increasing consumption of oil in the developing world, especially China and India. Not to forget, despite the claims from Exxon/Mobil's CEO that they are not gouging the public at the pump, I just can't buy that when Exxon/Mobil has a quarterly profit greater than any corporation in the history of the world, as recently happened, that this occurred with no connection to "gouging" at the pump.
</div>
<div> </div>
<div>A free market lassie faire advocate might reply: If the public quit buying so much gas, the price would go down...Basic market economics 100, yes?</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Though I think the Bush Presidency is a disaster, President Bush made one statement that I give him credit for getting right: We are addicted to oil. And like an addict, it appears the public will pay through the nose to keep their addiction going, even when they think they are being "gouged."
</div>
<div> </div>
<div>If everyone dramatically reduced their consumption of gas, the price probably would go down...At least for a short time. </div>
<div> </div>
<div>Ted Moffett</div>
<div><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ted Moffett</b> <<a href="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com">starbliss@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: May 3, 2007 1:36 AM
<br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Ga$oline Price$<br>To: Mark Solomon <<a href="mailto:msolomon@moscow.com">msolomon@moscow.com</a>><br>Cc: <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br><br> </span>
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<div> </div>
<div>Mark et. al.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Assuming those doing long term planning for securing world oil resources have done their homework, which they have, and they are arrogant enough to believe that the USA and it allies, especially Great Britain, should control these resources, via military force if necessary, it does not matter what are the current dominant sources of oil. Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, Iran, and other states in this region, remain the most oil rich area of the world, given current cheaply recoverable oil. For long term planning to control this oil rich region, meaning fifty to one hundred years out, the fact that oil is now coming from other oil rich states is not critical. The big oil prize remains the Middle East. I will not list the billions of barrels of oil resources that indicate the Middle East remains the long term dominant source of easily recoverable oil, because everyone knows this. Canada is a huge oil resource, now second to Saudi Arabia in listed recoverable oil, but still does not equal the oil resources of the Middle East, even when combined with Mexico and Venezuela, and Canada's oil sands are not as cheap to develop as many Middle East oil sources. Iraq's reserves are huge and of high quality. Cost is king. That is why coal sourced electricity, to switch to the specter of another fossil fuel energy source, of which the USA has the largest reserves of any nation, will remain dominant over all other Green sources, till mitigating factors stop coal's cheap energy expansion, whether it be via mandated CO2 sequestration, CO2 penalties or stringent controls over other atmospheric or environmental damages from coal. Have you seen the demolished mountains in the Appalachians do to coal mining? Looks like they were nuked!
</div>
<div> </div>
<div>We can eventually look forward, however, to the raping of Wyoming, Utah and Colorado, to develop the oil shale deposits in the USA, though this currently is a more expensive and environmentally controversial process, assuming we do not find other technologies or sources of energy to fuel our economy and lifestyle, given the huge amount of oil to be extracted, and the obvious blindness of the human race to the foolishness of our out of control domination of the world of nature. The chart below shows the USA has a huge oil shale potential (can you say "Global Warming?" I knew you could!):
</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Read on, fearless reader, in our Brave New World, at United States "Proved Recoverable Reserves" for oil shale. Do I read this chart wrong when it seems to indicate 60,000 to 80,000 million tons of recoverable oil from oil shale in the USA? I must be misinterpreting this data! Or it must be wrong!
</div>
<div> </div>
<div><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.worldenergy.org/wec-geis/publications/reports/ser/shale/shale.asp" target="_blank">http://www.worldenergy.org/wec-geis/publications/reports/ser/shale/shale.asp
</a></div>
<div> </div>
<div>
<p>
<table cellspacing="2" width="100%" border="1">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="center" width="65%" colspan="7" height="13"><b><font face="Arial" color="#ff0000" size="2">
<p>Table 3.1 Oil shale: resources, reserves and production at end-1999</p></font></b></td></tr></tbody></table></p>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="center" width="28%" height="37">
<p align="center"><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.worldenergy.org/wec-geis/publications/reports/ser/shale/excel_files/shale_3_1.xls" target="_blank"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
Excel File </font></b></a></p></td>
<td valign="center" width="12%" height="37"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">Recovery method</p></font></b></td>
<td valign="center" width="11%" height="37"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">Proved amount in place</p></font></b></td>
<td valign="center" width="13%" height="37"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">Proved recoverable reserves</p></font></b></td>
<td valign="center" width="12%" height="37"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">Average yield of oil</p></font></b></td>
<td valign="center" width="12%" height="37"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">Estimated additional reserves</p></font></b></td>
<td valign="center" width="11%" height="37"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">Production in 1999</p></font></b></td></tr>
<tr>
<td valign="center" width="28%" height="37"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="center"> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="center" width="12%" height="37"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right"> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="center" width="11%" height="37"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">million tonnes (shale)</p></font></b></td>
<td valign="center" width="13%" height="37"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">million tonnes (oil)</p></font></b></td>
<td valign="center" width="12%" height="37"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">kg oil/ tonne</p></font></b></td>
<td valign="center" width="12%" height="37"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">million tonnes (oil)</p></font></b></td>
<td valign="center" width="11%" height="37"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">thousand tonnes (oil)</p></font></b></td></tr>
<tr>
<td valign="center" width="28%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p>Africa</p></font></b></td>
<td valign="center" width="12%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="center"> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="center" width="11%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="center"> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="center" width="13%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="center"> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="center" width="12%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="center"> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="center" width="12%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="center"> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="center" width="11%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="center"> </p></font></b></td></tr>
<tr>
<td valign="center" width="28%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p>Morocco</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">surface</p></font></td>
<td valign="center" width="11%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">12 300</p></font></td>
<td valign="center" width="13%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">500</p></font></td>
<td valign="center" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">50 - 64</p></font></td>
<td valign="center" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">5 400</p></font></td>
<td valign="center" width="11%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></td></tr>
<tr>
<td valign="bottom" width="28%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p>South Africa</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">in-situ</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">73</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="13%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">10</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></td></tr>
<tr>
<td valign="bottom" width="28%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p>North America</p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="13%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td></tr>
<tr>
<td valign="bottom" width="28%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p>United States of America</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">surface</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">3 340 000</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="13%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">60 000 - 80 000</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">57</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">62 000</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></td></tr>
<tr>
<td valign="bottom" width="28%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p>South America</p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="13%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td></tr>
<tr>
<td valign="bottom" width="28%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p>Brazil</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">surface</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="13%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">70</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">9 646</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">195</p></font></td></tr>
<tr>
<td valign="bottom" width="28%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p>Asia</p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="13%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td></tr>
<tr>
<td valign="bottom" width="28%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p>Thailand</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">in-situ</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">18 668</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="13%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">810</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">50</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></td></tr>
<tr>
<td valign="bottom" width="28%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p>Turkey</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">surface</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">1 640</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="13%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">269</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">56</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></td></tr>
<tr>
<td valign="bottom" width="28%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p>Europe</p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="13%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td></tr>
<tr>
<td valign="bottom" width="28%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p>Albania</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">surface</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">6</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="13%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">5</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></td></tr>
<tr>
<td valign="bottom" width="28%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p>Estonia</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">surface</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">590</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="13%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">167</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">151</p></font></td></tr>
<tr>
<td valign="bottom" width="28%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">in-situ</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">910</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="13%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></td></tr>
<tr>
<td valign="bottom" width="28%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p>Ukraine</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">in-situ</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">2 674</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="13%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">300</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">126</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">6 200</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></td></tr>
<tr>
<td valign="bottom" width="28%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p>Middle East</p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="13%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td></tr>
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<p>Israel</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">surface</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">15 360</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="13%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">600</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">62</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></td></tr>
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<td valign="bottom" width="28%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p>Jordan</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">surface</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">40 000</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="13%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">4 000</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">100</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">20 000</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></td></tr>
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<p>Oceania</p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="13%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="20"><b><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p> </p></font></b></td></tr>
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<td valign="bottom" width="28%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p>Australia</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">in-situ</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">32 400</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="13%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">1 725</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">53</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="12%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">35 260</p></font></td>
<td valign="bottom" width="11%" height="13"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">
<p align="right">5</p></font></td></tr>
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<p>Notes:</p></font></b></td></tr>
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<p>1. Generally the data shown above are those reported by WEC Member Committees in 2000/2001</p></font></td></tr>
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<td valign="bottom" width="89%" colspan="7" height="12"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">2. The data for Albania, Brazil, Israel, South Africa and Ukraine are those reported by WEC Member Committees for SER 1998</font>
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<td valign="bottom" width="89%" colspan="7" height="12"><font face="Arial,HELVETICA" size="2">3. The data thus constitute a sample, reflecting the information available in particular countries: they should not be considered as complete, or necessarily representative of the situation in each region. For this reason, regional and global aggregates have not been computed
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