NEVER FORGET (Ron Paul ‘08?)

(The sole point of this blog is to get you to read a series of articles published soon after 9/11. It quickly devolves to me whining about Republicans.)

I’ve been using this phrase more and more frequently, to refer to increasingly mundane situations. Chicken salad for lunch, 12-18-07: Never Forget. Not sure if I forgot what we weren’t supposed to forget, or if I never knew. I think some airplanes were intentionally crashed into a couple buildings, but nobody was going to forget that. Don’t forget to blame Arabs? Don’t forget irrational fear and lust for vengeance? It never made sense to me, always sounded like propaganda, and the further removed we are the more ridiculous “Never Forget” becomes.

Why Brazil’s Find Doesn’t Matter

The find: “On Nov. 8, Brazil’s state-controlled oil firm Petrobras confirmed the finding of huge oil reserves that could hold up to 8 billion barrels of light crude in the Tupi fields, off Brazil’s southeastern coast.” “Tupi is the world’s biggest oil find since a 12 billion-barrel Kazakh field was discovered in 2000, and the largest ever in deep waters.” “Perhaps more important, Petrobras believes Tupi may be Brazil’s first of several new ‘elephants,’ an industry term for outsize fields of more than 1 billion barrels.”

Ok, it does matter. It’s a huge find for Brazil that will make the nation a major oil exporter for years to come, especially given their booming ethanol industry. It is significant in a world where every year another nation peaks in production or switches from net exporter to net importer. Every drop counts.