Looming Gas Crisis: Gas Thief Escapes on Tricycle

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Looming Gas Crisis: Gas Thief Escapes on Tricycle

Posted: 8/17/2005 7:00:18 AM EDT

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August 16, 2005—Speeding from the scene of the crime, a Chinese boy tows a floating plastic bag of stolen natural gas last week. Flouting a government ban, farmers around the central Chinese town of Pucheng frequently filch gas from the local oil field.

As Chinese industry booms and automobile use spreads, the country as a whole appears to be on a feverish quest for fossil fuels. Oil consumption rose by 11 percent last year, and the number of private autos hit 14 million in 2003—and is expected to rise to 150 million by 2015. (See "China's Boom Is Bust for Global Environment, Study Warns.")

China National Offshore Oil Corporation dropped its bid for U.S. oil and natural gas company Unocal earlier this month. But the China National Petroleum Corporation, the country's biggest oil company, has now joined with an Indian company in an effort to buy PetroKazakhstan, a Canadian company with oil fields in the central Asian country of Kazakhstan.

Posted: 8/17/2005 7:10:01 AM EDT

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Posted: 8/17/2005 7:12:25 AM EDT

[#2]

DUPE

www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=380272

Posted: 8/17/2005 7:15:37 AM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
DUPE

www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=380272

Figures..............

Posted: 8/17/2005 7:15:42 AM EDT

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news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0816_050816_gas_theft.html

news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/images/050816_gas_theft.jpg

August 16, 2005—Speeding from the scene of the crime, a Chinese boy tows a floating plastic bag of stolen natural gas last week. Flouting a government ban, farmers around the central Chinese town of Pucheng frequently filch gas from the local oil field.

As Chinese industry booms and automobile use spreads, the country as a whole appears to be on a feverish quest for fossil fuels. Oil consumption rose by 11 percent last year, and the number of private autos hit 14 million in 2003—and is expected to rise to 150 million by 2015. (See "China's Boom Is Bust for Global Environment, Study Warns.")

China National Offshore Oil Corporation dropped its bid for U.S. oil and natural gas company Unocal earlier this month. But the China National Petroleum Corporation, the country's biggest oil company, has now joined with an Indian company in an effort to buy PetroKazakhstan, a Canadian company with oil fields in the central Asian country of Kazakhstan.

Dang! The headline should read, "Small Chinese boy is pursued by fleshly colored mutant slug"

Wonder what happens if you toss a match at him?

Posted: 8/17/2005 7:17:20 AM EDT

[#5]

Static electricity is not your friend.

Posted: 8/17/2005 7:26:29 AM EDT

[#6]

That's not a little boy - it's a cleverly camoflaged Alien Queen !!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH !!!

Posted: 8/17/2005 7:30:42 AM EDT

[#7]

Looks like he's ... "connected" ... to that bag.

Maybe it's filled with methane...

Posted: 8/17/2005 7:34:11 AM EDT

[#8]

Can you imagine trying to drive something like that home in this country?

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