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| Israel to renew Gaza fuel supplies after blackout |
| 2007-08-19 |
| Israel said on Saturday it will allow fresh deliveries of fuel into Gaza, after a freeze which plunged much of the impoverished Palestinian territory into darkness overnight. "Fuel deliveries will resume to the Gaza Strip on Sunday morning via the Nahal Oz crossing," a military spokesman told AFP. On Friday, the Israeli army confirmed it had barred deliveries via the Nahal Oz crossing for "security reasons." The Palestinian electricity company said on Friday that it had been forced to stop nearly all electricity production in Gaza because of the suspension of deliveries. "We are forced to stop three out of the station's four generators", its director Rafiq Maliha told reporters in Gaza. Gaza has a single 140-megawatt power plant that provides about three quarters of the territory's electricity needs. All of the fuel for the plant comes from Israel. The remainder of Gaza's electricity needs is supplied by Israel, Egypt and private electricity generators. Home to some 1.5 million largely impoverished people, Gaza is one of the world's most densely populated places. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #14 I thirds it, OP! Time for the Gazans to reap what they sow in my book. Any nation who's entirely running on four generators and still can't buy a cluebat about the cause-effect thingy is right dense, that's for sure. |
| Posted by: BA 2007-08-19 22:08 |
| #13 I really like your thinking OP! I second the emotion! |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-08-19 21:49 |
| #12 Gaza is one of the world's most densely populated places No argument here. Them Gaza folks is right dense. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2007-08-19 21:10 |
| #11 I really like your thinking OP! |
| Posted by: 3dc 2007-08-19 21:02 |
| #10 Alcohol is a much greater danger to internal combustion than a little sugar. Add 10% ethyl alcohol to diesel fuel (what most power plants use), and watch the pistons melt, the engine gum up, and valves become caked with carbon. It's also more soluble in diesel. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2007-08-19 20:26 |
| #9 Israel needs to "sweeten" the deal by adding sugar to the fuel. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-08-19 15:21 |
| #8 Bummer about the spork, Woofman. |
| Posted by: lotp 2007-08-19 13:04 |
| #7 ;-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-08-19 13:02 |
| #6 Would you please to hush. You just costed me Z100,000,000,000 and a new spork. |
| Posted by: Thomas Woof 2007-08-19 12:55 |
| #5 just don't ask for the paper copies. The shipping and handling fee would easily outvalue the bonds |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-08-19 12:34 |
| #4 Okay, this time for real, Zim-Bonds at the bottoms, snap 'em up. |
| Posted by: Thomas Woof 2007-08-19 12:33 |
| #3 GGC I still list as under-perform. Sell now, invest in Zim Bonds now at bottom. No... now at bottom, wait.. now. |
| Posted by: Thomas Woof 2007-08-19 08:12 |
| #2 "Fuel deliveries will resume to the Gaza Strip on Sunday morning via the Nahal Oz crossing," "Right after the Shabbat is done." |
| Posted by: gorb 2007-08-19 05:32 |
| #1 Israel said on Saturday it will allow fresh deliveries of fuel into Gaza Tell me that this is not a sign of insanity. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-08-19 00:59 |