51.   Then the oil is pumped into tanks to rest.

52.   To make it productive, the resource needs to be exploited, just as coal is mined and oil is pumped to provide for a payoff.

53.   Though China pumps more oil than all but a few countries, production is lagging.

54.   To this end Russia has been trying to force Azerbaijan to agree to pump its oil north through Russian pipelines, rather than via Iran.

55.   Turkey is also interested in resuming a commercial relationship with Iraq and pumping Iraqi oil.

56.   Turkey wants Iraq to start pumping oil as soon as possible.

57.   What would lead the Saudis to start pumping enough oil to bring down prices?

58.   What I have witnessed along the Kikori has changed my mind about the inevitability of environmental disaster when oil is pumped out of the ground.

59.   Will they agree to pump more oil?

60.   With lower prices Iraq would have to pump more oil to fill its U.N. quota, which in turn would provoke a further price collapse.