FUEL

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Fuel - can we talk? Nothing has happened or will happen in this world without fuel. Fuel is our basic building block; it is the foundation we must have before anything else happens. If you have read another posting of mine you know the importation of oil is going to essentially cease. That is not my opinion but the conclusion reached by managers of oil in the middle east, South America, and our Maritime sector. This was documented at the UN International Conference on y2K held in Dec., 1998. Until that problem is fixed (how many years will that take considering the countries?) it doesn't matter if you have software, hardware, or embedded systems problems. You will not, cannot, fix any problem without first having fuel. An example of fuel that is closer to home - your body. You cannot sit up, get up, walk, run, etc. unless you have fuel. What kind of fuel? Water and food. Water and food have minerals and little things called vitamins that your body makes into fuel. Did you, or do you, think food is just something you do because it tastes good? Here is an absolute truth; without water and food you die. We're talking fuel here. I started looking at the nutrition statement on the cans of food I was buying to store. Nutrition has suddenly become very important. "What is this can going to give me for fuel?" (Buy lots of sweet potatoes and carrots; large amounts of Vit. A and Beta Carotene.) What's the point here? The realization that our bodies must have proper fuel just like this country needs it. Without country fuel you can't fix the y2K problems and without fuel for yourself you can't fix the y2K problems. Absolutely nothing is going to move within this country or you without FUEL. FUEL is the common humbling denominator of us all. Marcella

-- Anonymous, February 20, 1999

Answers

Marcella:

I have read the UN report you referred to and it is true that the Coast Guard representative that made that speech was VERY pessimistic about the Maritime community. Furthermore, the recent GAO report confirms those findings.

http://www.access.gpo.gov/cgi- bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=gao&docid=f:ai99050t.txt.pdf

But, I have never read anything from the managers in the Middle East and South America who you refer to; do you have a site I could access?

Thanks, Meg

-- Anonymous, February 21, 1999


Here's some more info on fuel supplies from "Alexander's Gas and Oil Connections" (petroleum industry trade magazine). The referenced article is a good one:

http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/reports/rex90842.htm

Here's a snippet:

Chevron has said it will not fix all its systems by Dec. 31, 1999, and Year 2000 business interruptions could prevent it from making and delivering refined products and producing oil and gas. AT&T has acknowledged the potential for failure across its systems and has cranked up Year 2000 spending by more than 50 %.


-- Anonymous, February 22, 1999

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