Debate About Oil Pipeline Plan to Supply American Military Bases

    On August 10th, 2011 at the National Midstream Conference, plans were announced to build a pipeline across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Ocean to supply oil for American military bases.  Jon Sudders of XOM Petroleum stated, "America has a problem with using too much foreign oil.  With military bases in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Qatar, Norway, Japan, and England we can make a difference and increase national security for the United States."
  The Pacific Pipeline will go from the oil fields in Alaska across the Pacific to a refinery near a US military base in Japan.  The Trans Oceanic Pipeline will go across the Atlantic Ocean and into the Indian Ocean to supply military bases in Arab gulf states and Iraq. The Africanas Pipeline will begin in the Gulf of Mexico to supply military operations to fuel the jets, tanks, etc. that are used in the war in the North African nation of Libya.  The Atlantic North Sea Pipeline will begin in the Gulf of Mexico and stretch out to countries that are in the North Sea like England and Norway.
  Jon Sudders ended with, "Americans need to know about the amount of oil used for American military operations, and that is our industries mission.  We can increase drilling in the United States so we won't need to use petroleum from oil producing nations where the US has military bases. This is our industries way of giving back to our number one customer, the US Department of Defense.  We are also going to demand all American companies drilling overseas to turn foreign oil fields into storage facilities for oil used for military operations."