higher oil prices this a.m. - CNN lists fired upon oil tanker as one reason

[ensho]

here is what RSOE has to report about it:

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index.php?smp=&lang=eng

Enviroment Pollution

An unidentified ship fired on a Japanese oil tanker Monday off the eastern coast of Yemen, leaving a hole from which several kiloliters (hundreds of gallons) of fuel leaked, the ship's operator said. No one was injured. The 150,000-ton tanker Takayama was attacked about 440 kilometers (270 miles) off the coast of Aden in southwestern Yemen while it was heading for Saudi Arabia, its Japanese operator, Nippon Yusen K.K., said in a statement. None of its 23 crew members - seven Japanese and 16 Filipinos - was injured, the company said. The tanker had left the South Korean port of Ulsan on April 4. Nippon Yusen spokeswoman Yuko Tsutsui said the attack left a 2-centimeter (1-inch) hole in the tanker's stern, which was temporarily patched after several kiloliters (hundreds of gallons) of fuel leaked. She said the tanker was heading to Aden for repairs, and its itinerary could change depending on the extent of the damage. Yukio Yamashita, a Transport Ministry official in charge of crisis management, said the area is considered prone to pirate attacks. He said the unknown attacker had left the scene. The tanker was hit by a rocket fired from a small boat. No other details were immediately available.
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[rdenney]

1. So now its eco-terrorism.What next?

[chill_wind]

2. Somebody, somewhere farting sideways. ANY excuse will do these days.

They are laughing at us all. All the way to the banks every morning.