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Fossil fuel has an ageless affinity with dinosaurs. To create oil, dinosaurs died.


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The perfect energy storm is sweeping over the United States: Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown has paralyzed nuclear expansion globally, BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill has stalled deep water drilling, Arab oil countries are in turmoil causing doubt about access to future oil, the intensity of hurricanes hitting the Gulf’s oil rigs and refineries has intensified due to global warming, and the nation’s Strategic Oil Supply is riding on empty.

As the energy storm intensifies, the nation’s access to Arab oil, once supplying over sixty percent of our fossil fuel, is being threatened causing people to panic for lack of gas at the pumps, stranding cars across the country and inciting riots.

The U.S. Military is forced to cut back air, land, and sea operations sucking up 58% of every barrel of oil to protect the nation; U.S. commercial airlines are forced to limit flights for lack of jet fuel; and businesses are challenged to power up their factories, and offices as the U.S. Department of Energy desperately tries to provide a balance of electric power from the network of aged power plants and transmission lines that power up the nation.

The United States must find new sources of domestic fossil fuel urgently or face an energy crisis that will plunge the nation into a deep depression worse than 1929.

The energy storm is very real and happening this very moment. But, at the last moment of desperation, the United States discovers the world’s largest fossil fuel deposit found in a remote inaccessible mountain range within Alaska’s Noatak National Preserve surrounding six and a half million acres.

Preventing access to the oil is a colony of living fossil dinosaurs that will protect its territory to the death.

Nobody gets out alive; nobody can identify the predator--until Dr. Kimberly Fulton, Curator of Paleontology at New York’s Museum of Natural History, is flown into the inaccessible area by Scott Chandler, the Marine veteran helicopter pilot who’s the Park’s Manager of Wildlife. All hell breaks loose when Fulton’s teenage son and his girlfriend vanish into the Park.

Will the nation’s military be paralyzed for lack of mobility fuel, and will people across America run out of gas and be stranded, or will the U.S. Military succeed in penetrating this remote mountain range in northwestern Alaska to restore fossil fuel supplies in time to save the nation from the worst energy driven catastrophe in recorded history?

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Why Oil Prices May Remain Strong, War or No War


By Katie Holliday

Uncertainty over rising tensions in Syria has driven oil prices to fresh highs in recent weeks, but analysts say the bullish sentiment is expected to stay regardless of whether or not the scenario escalates into a full blown war.

"Even if there is a war in Syria or no war in Syria I think oil will remain strong," said Sean Hyman, editor of Moneynews at the monthly newsletter Ultimate Wealth Report. "WTI could go from $108 to $117 [a barrel] and Brent could go from $115 to $125 [a barrel] very easily."

"You've got strikes of oil workers in Libya ... you've got Egypt really still in limbo with their government ... and you've also still got what could turn into a war in Syria. I believe you've got a big case for oil and oil stocks to go higher," he said.

Syria tensions were renewed this week after key U.S. congressional leaders voiced their support for President Barack Obama's call for a military strike against Syria to retaliate against its use of chemical weapons against civilians, making the likelihood of action look more imminent.

Libya's oil production has fallen to about one sixth of its pre-2011 civil war levels in recent weeks due to a month-long disruption by armed security guards who shut the country's main export ports. Meanwhile an attack on a ship passing through the Suez Canal over the weekend has flagged continued geopolitical risk in Egypt.

Han Pin Hsi, global head of commodities at Standard Chartered, said if Syria tensions ease, he doubted Brent would spike as high as $125 a barrel. It would likely trade in a $105-$115 a barrel range, while WTI would trade at a $5 discount to Brent, he said. "Oil will remain firm because of risks to supply from other oil producers: Iran is not coming back quickly, there are issues with Libya and tensions in the Middle East North Africa area will keep oil firm," he said.

However, oil could reach $125 a barrel if tensions in Syria escalate, Hsi added.

"It's anyone's guess what would happen to oil then, but we would probably see a spike. But oil at $125 a barrel would be a significant headwind for the already fragile global economy, causing a lot of problems, so it would not be sustainable for long," he said.

Last week, Societe Generale analysts laid out a case for Brent to spike to $150 a barrel temporarily if Syria's supporters seek to punish the U.S. and its allies for a military strike, a development many industry watchers see as a worst case scenario.

Last week U.S. crude reached its highest level in over two years, while Brent crude moved to its highest level since February. They have since pulled back. On Wednesday, Brent traded at $115.77 a barrel at mid-morning in Asia, while WTI traded at $108.29 a barrel.

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