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17
May

Relative Values

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EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. $885,000

A 1,500-square-foot two-bedroom, one-bathroom house on ½ acre in the Hamptons.

DETAILS: The midcentury-style home was recently renovated and has a great room with central fireplace and a swimming pool that overlooks the water. It is within walking distance to the village. There’s also a stainless-steel kitchen and central air conditioning.

WHAT’S OUTSIDE: The house is located near a private community beach as well as a boat mooring at Three Mile Harbor.

GROCERY RUN: The family-run One Stop Market is about a half-mile from the house.

FRIDAY’S FORECAST: Partly sunny, high 74 degrees.

SOURCE:Tony Cerio with Brown Harris Stevens, 631-903-6151, tcerio@bhshamptons.com.

SPRING ISLAND, S.C. $790,000

A 1,270-square-foot two-bedroom, two-bathroom house on 5.3 acres in a private island community.

DETAILS: The house, built in 1997, has a metal roof, wide-plank wood walls, a wood-burning fireplace and built-in shelving. The master bedroom has a screened-in porch. The 3,000-acre community has golf, art classes and equestrian facilities.

what’s outside: The community has a large nature preserve and the home overlooks a pond and salt marsh in the distance.

grocery run: Major grocery stores on the mainland are about a 15-minute drive away.

FRIDAY’S FORECAST: Possible thunderstorms, high 89 degrees.

SOURCE:Craig Lehman at Spring Island Realty, 843-987-2200, clehman@springisland.com.

OKEECHOBEE, Fla. $750,000

A 1,700-square-foot, two-bedroom, two-bathroom cabin in a private recreation club between Orlando and Palm Beach, Fla.

DETAILS: The two-story home has lake views, a loft and a 1,600-square-foot wrap-around porch with an outdoor fireplace. There are vaulted ceilings, slate floors and marble countertops.

WHAT’S OUTSIDE: The Pine Creek Sporting Club has horseback-riding stables, bird-shooting facilities, fishing and archery.

GROCERY RUN: A concierge service can deliver groceries or the Fort Drum General Store is about a five-minute drive away.

FRIDAY’S FORECAST: Clouds and sun, high 90 degrees.

SOURCE:John Reynolds, Pine Creek Sporting Club, 561-346-9365, jreynolds@pinecreeksportingclub.com.

—Candace Jackson


© 2011 Wall Street Journal (www.wsj.com)

17
May

December 17, 2010 – Green Power Planet Newsletter

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Published by: United States Environmental Protection Agence (EPA) (yosemite.epa.gov)

17
May

Bid to Ease the Squeeze on Business

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San Francisco is notorious for making it difficult to open and run small businesses. For Juliet Pries, who just opened The Ice Cream Bar in Cole Valley, it meant months of red tape and rent to realize her goal. Maggie Beidelman reports.

For decades, San Francisco has been a difficult place to set up and run a small business—especially a restaurant. Eager to keep entrepreneurs on their feet and attract new ones, the city is trying to make it easier.

The Board of Supervisors in January proposed an ordinance to reduce the number of restaurant definitions, each with its own zoning regulations, from 13 to three—Restaurant, Limited Restaurant, and Bar.

“There are all these really contradictory rules,” said City Supervisor Christina Olague, who proposed the ordinance along with Supervisor Scott Wiener. The board is expected to consider the measure in the coming weeks.

The move is one of several in San Francisco aimed at helping small businesses start up and keep running.

Mayor Ed Lee announced an additional $1.5 million for the city’s Small Business Revolving Loan Fund in January, and the Board of Supervisors recently approved it. That follows the establishment in 2008 of the Office of Small Business, a program to help potential business owners navigate the city’s cumbersome licensing and permitting requirements, which include a lengthy review process in which neighbors get a say on any new business plans.

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Juliet Pries said she spent nearly $300,000 and two years to open The Ice Cream Bar in San Francisco.

The goal is to avoid the kind of experience Candace Combs recently had with her day spa, In-Symmetry. When she decided in 2010 to move her nine-year-old business from one location in San Francisco to another, Ms. Combs ran into zoning regulations and other city rules that dragged out her search for a year and a half. She took on five real-estate agents to find a space with the appropriate zoning and paid roughly $15,000 in permit fees before reopening in December.

“San Francisco is a nightmare,” said Ms. Combs. “You’re constantly butting your head up against the most ridiculous city bureaucracy.”

Restaurants face some of the most onerous rules. An eatery in San Francisco typically completes up to 12 permit applications and filings. The entire process of opening a restaurant usually takes nine to 14 months, sometimes longer, said Regina Dick-Endrizzi, director of the Office of Small Business.

In contrast, a restaurant in Oakland could open in as little as four months, with only three permits, not including county permits, according to Oakland’s Planning Department. The process rarely takes longer than nine months, and Oakland’s planning code has just four definitions of restaurants, compared with San Francisco’s 13.

“In San Francisco, you could spend a year or two paying rent through the permit process,” said Rob Black, director of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, a nonprofit trade association. “In Oakland, they will bend over backwards to help you open a restaurant.”

The city of San Francisco acknowledges the thicket of regulations and even pokes fun at itself for it. Last year, the Planning Commission created a YouTube video, “Hello City Planner,” quoting directly from the planning code. One sample line: “How big is the space you would be renting? 1,000 square feet or less would make you a Small Self-Service restaurant. Above that, you would be a Large Fast-Food Restaurant. …Wait, it doesn’t matter in this district anyway, because neither one is permitted here.”

Overall, there were 71,000 small businesses in San Francisco as of July 2011, not including insurance companies or banks, according to the Office of Small Business. Small businesses employ about 50% of all employees in the city and contribute about 52% of the total sales tax.

Lori Eanes for The Wall Street Journal

Dela Messex serves a cone.

San Francisco’s layers of small-business regulations date to 1987, when the city rezoned its mixed-use neighborhood corridors into neighborhood commercial districts, allowing for a more detailed review process. Before the rezoning, the city approved 97% of the permit applications submitted for small businesses, according to the San Francisco Planning Department. By 2007, the latest year for which data were available, only 30% were approved.

The situation began to change in 2008, when then-mayor Gavin Newsom launched the Office of Small Business. The office is a one-stop shop for small businesses looking for help on how to open and operate in the city. It now handles 140 to 185 inquiries a month, 65% of them coming from people who want to start a business.

In 2009, the city started the Revolving Loan Fund with $670,000, to help create jobs and get small businesses access to capital. Microlender Working Solutions distributes the fund and provides five-year assistance for borrowers.

“I can think of nothing worse than seeing vacant storefronts,” Mayor Lee said. “We must make capital available to entrepreneurs to open up shop and support existing small businesses through the revolving loan fund.”

Ron Miguel, a member of the Planning Commission, cautioned that “you’re never going to do away with the bureaucracy,” but added, “We can always come up with a better way of doing things.”

For some small-business owners, the new moves are coming too late. Juliet Pries, 44 years old, said she opened The Ice Cream Bar in Cole Valley in January after spending nearly $300,000 and two years to get her zoning-designated Full-Service Restaurant off the ground.

“I thought I had all the information. But every step I took, there was something more,” Ms. Pries said. If the proposed restaurant ordinance had already been in effect, she added, “I would have been open a year and a half ago.”

© 2011 Wall Street Journal (www.wsj.com)

17
May

Tablets mudam a forma de comprar e admirar arte

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Em Londres, visitantes percorrem o museu Tate Modern, parando para olhar obras de arte — ou os seus smartphones. Durante a última feira de arte Art Basel, na Suíça, uma colecionadora fechou a compra de um quadro de US$ 250.000 — sentada num salão de cabelereiro de Los Angeles, vendo a obra no seu tablet. Nos dias de hoje, qualquer um que tenha um iPad pode criar a sua própria versão de uma pintura de Damien Hirst, graças a um aplicativo da galeria Gagosian, que há pouco tempo exibiu obras do artista nas suas 11 filiais ao redor do mundo.

Gagosian Gallery

O aplicativo da galeria Gagosian permite ao usuário explorar virtualmente os trabalhos de Richard Serra.

As ferramentas digitais estão mudando a forma como a arte é comprada, vendida ou simplesmente admirada. Colecionadores que antigamente viajavam mundo afora atrás de feiras e leilões de arte estão agora comprando mais obras sem nunca tê-las visto pessoalmente, baseados em imagens digitais. As galerias agora têm a capacidade de mostrar para os colecionadores interessados muitos mais trabalhos do que caberiam nos seus showrooms, simplesmente navegando catálogos digitais. Museus estão encorajando visitantes a usar aplicativos digitais para que tenham mais informações sobre as obras em exibição. Alguns aplicativos de museus e galerias permitem aos visitantes dar um zoom numa obra e ver detalhes mais nitidamente que a olho nu — um recurso que deve se tornar ainda mais poderoso depois que a Apple lançou esta semana seu novo iPad, que tem uma resolução de tela mais alta.

“Nós estamos no meio de uma grande mudança na forma como museus se relacionam com a audiência”, diz Peter Samis, curador associado de mídia interpretativa do Museu de Arte Moderna de San Francisco. “Há uma crescente demanda no nível mais alto, com os curadores todos perguntando: ‘Onde está o nosso aplicativo para iPad?’ em qualquer museu, grande ou pequeno, de toda a América.”

Funcionários das sociedades de leilão Christie’s e da Sotheby’s dizem que estão vendo cada vez mais iPads e outros aparelhos encher as salas durante as vendas. A Christie’s, que já permite lances remotos através do seu website, pretende estender o recurso para o seu aplicativo de iPad no mês que vem, juntamente com novas funções de acesso a relatórios sobre as condições das obras. A Sotheby’s acabou de atualizar o seu aplicativo de catálogo no iPad, para que os colecionadores possam tomar notas em seus catálogos digitais durante as vendas.

Os tablets também estão se tornando corriqueiros em feiras de arte. Em junho passado, na Art Basel da Suíça, o vendedor Adam Sheffer, sócio da galeria Cheim & Read, de Nova York, encontrou-se com um cliente interessado em uma obra de Ghada Amer, uma pintora egípcia cujos trabalhos exigem intensa mão-de-obra e contêm complexos bordados. As obras da galeria estavam catalogadas no iPad por meio do ArtBinder, um aplicativo que está rapidamente substituindo os uso de catálogos físicos nas feiras de arte. O colecionador de Los Angeles estava prestes a comprar a obra, mas ele queria o aval da esposa, que estava a quase 10.000 quilômetros de distância, num cabeleireiro em Los Angeles. Sheffer enviou por email uma imagem ampliada da obra para a esposa, que concordou com o negócio de US$ 250.000. “A coisa toda levou uma hora”, diz Sheffer.

O colecionador Dennis Scholl, de Miami Beach, diz que vídeo e fotografia são uma combinação natural quando ele pensa em comprar uma obra de arte baseado em uma imagem digital; já no caso das esculturas, com suas questões de escala, e dos desenhos, com suas gradações sutis de tonalidades, ele prefere ver as obras pessoalmente. Scholl há pouco tempo adquiriu um trabalho de Tamy Ben-Tor, uma artista israelense que cria vídeos e fotografias de personagens que ela mesmo representa. Ele usou seu iPad para ver o vídeo de Ben-Tor como uma anciã numa floresta. “O iPad, por causa da beleza das imagens e da clareza da reprodução, torna você um colecionador mais corajoso”, diz ele.

Ferramentas digitais também podem ajudar colecionadores a organizar grandes inventários de obras localizadas em diversos lugares do mundo. A curadora Laura J. Mueller cataloga mais de 700 trabalhos japoneses, espalhados por duas casas e um depósito, para um colecionador privado de Nova York, organizando as imagens digitais das peças com um iPhone e um aplicativo de iPad, o Collectrium.

Várias galerias de arte lançaram aplicativos digitais, em parte para atender colecionadores que dependem dos seus aparelhos quando estão comprando arte. Com a função Damien Hirst no aplicativo da galeria Gagosian, desenvolvido pela @radical.media, uma firma de Nova York, usuários não apenas podem ver as “pinturas em tempo real” do artista, mas também manipular os trabalhos para criar novas versões digitais, mudando temporariamente as cores e o tamanho dos pontos ao inclinar e apertar a tela. É ao mesmo tempo uma elegante ferramenta de marketing e um meio original de engajar potenciais compradores.

Cerca de 34.000 pessoas baixaram de graça o aplicativo da Gagosian desde que a primeira versão foi lançada, em junho, diz Kara Vander Weg, gerencia o aplicativo na Gagosian. Vander Weg diz que o dono da galeria, Larry Gagosian, e seus amigos têm iPads, e que eles notaram que os aparelhos vem sendo ubíquos nas feiras de arte. Então, criar um aplicativo tornou-se uma prioridade para os executivos da galeria. “Eles todos chegaram à mesma conclusão”, diz ela. “Esse deve ser o nosso próximo passo.”

Os museus também estão chegando à mesma conclusão. O Guggenheim de Nova York desistiu das tradicionais placas na parede, na sua recente exposição das esculturas do artista italiano Maurizio Cattellan; em vez disso, colocou todas as informações sobre os trabalhos expostos num aplicativo que os visitantes podiam baixar para os seus iPads e smartphones. O museu também pôs iPads nas mãos dos seus guias durante a atual exposição das obras do falecido escultor americano John Chamberlain, mais conhecido pelos seus trabalhos feitos com pedaços amassados da lataria de carros. O aplicativo oferece informações adicionais sobre o artista, bem como um vídeo em que ele aparece trabalhando. Kim Kanatani, diretor de educação do museu, diz que essas táticas são fundamentais para aumentar “a média de três segundos” que os visitantes geralmente passam em frente a uma obra.

O Tate Modern de Londres apresentou há pouco tempo seu aplicativo gratuito para iPhone, o “Correndo Contra o Tempo”, no qual um camaleão viaja pelos grandes movimentos artísticos, enfrentando inimigos como garrafas verde de absinto e um Pablo Picasso que cospe fogo. Usuários só conseguem ativar o “turbo” quando estão dentro do museu Tate — um modo de atrair mais visitantes.

No Museu de Arte Antiga e Nova, uma coleção guardada entre as paredes escuras de um espaço subterrâneo em Tasmânia, Austrália, nenhuma peça tem placa de identificação. Em vez disso, o museu equipa os visitantes com iPhones Touches, os quais eles podem usar para aprender mais sobre as obras e votar se eles amam ou odeiam um determinado trabalho, recebendo uma resposta imediata com a opinião dos outros visitantes. As obras de arte podem mudar de posição no museu dependendo das avaliações, e o museu pode até decidir exibir um trabalho que todo mundo diz que odeia num lugar proeminente, em parte para perturbar o status quo, diz Nic Whyte, diretor de criatividade e cofundador da Art Processors, que ajudou a conceber a estratégia digital do museu.

À medida que os museus continuam a integrar mais aparelhos móveis às suas exposições — o Museu de Belas Artes, de Boston, agora oferece tours multimídia em 750 iPod Touches alugáveis — funcionários estão debatendo como incorporar a tecnologia sem tornar o visitante no que no setor chamam de “zumbis de galeria”, aqueles que param a alguns centímetros de uma obra de arte e mantém os olhos grudados nas suas telas.

A colecionadora e consultora de arte Lauren Prakke, de Londres, diz que gadgets já são parte dos eventos da arte. “Às vezes você pensa, uau, você tem algumas das mais incríveis obras do mundo na sala e alguém está olhando para o telefone”, diz ela. “Eu falo: ‘Por acaso eu sou a única que está admirando a arte?’”.

© 2011 Wall Street Journal (www.wsj.com)

17
May

Hedge funds cut bullish oil bets

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New York: Hedge funds cut bullish oil bets by the most in three years the week before the Seaway pipeline begins to ease a stockpile glut, while rising output and concern over Europe’s financial woes sent prices tumbling.

Money managers reduced net-long positions, or wagers prices will rise, by 33 per cent in the seven days ended May 8, according to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Commitments of Traders report on May 11. It was the largest drop since the week ended April 21, 2009.

Oil declined for two weeks on concern that Eur-ope’s sovereign debt crisis will worsen, curbing fuel demand as global supply increases. Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ali Al Nuaimi said on Sunday that prices should be lower. Rising US production spurred speculation that the shift in the Seaway pipeline from the trading hub at Cushing, Oklahoma, may not be enough to reduce US crude stockpiles from a 22-year high.

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16
May

IRISH BEWARE – al-Qaeda wants your sons

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WASHINGTON DC (Catholic Online) – Posted online, the letter was part of a declassified document dump by the Combating Terrorism Center, a privately funded research institute at the US Military Academy at West Point. 

The letter was written in January 2011 by American al-Qaeda spokesman, Adam Gadahn and sent to Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. Gadhan’s letter encouraged the now deceased bin Laden to reach out to the Irish who have been disillusioned with the Catholic Church because of scandal there. 

The letter added that Ireland was worthy because the country and its people were not participants in President Bush’s fight against al-Qaeda. 

Finally, Gadhan mentions the poor economy in Ireland and the spread of atheism in Europe, as making the people ripe for conversion. “Why do we not face them with Islam?” Gadhan proposed.
 
If bin Laden had heeded Gadhan’s advice then it is likely al-Qaeda would have initiated a recruitment campaign to seek converts to Islam who might have volunteered for terrorist missions including suicide bombings. 

Undoubtedly the Irish people are upset over sex abuse scandals within the Church and the prospect that the Vatican has not handled those allegations properly, for a variety of reasons. However, it is difficult to say if the frustration runs deeply enough that any youth would turn to al-Qaeda where they could be indoctrinated and turned into human weapons for the terrorist organization. 

While there is no evidence that al-Qaeda is actively operating in Ireland, seeking recruits, the contents of the letter should serve as a warning that al-Qaeda is viewing the youth of Ireland with covetous eyes. 


© 2012, Distributed by NEWS CONSORTIUM. 

Published by: Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)

16
May

Former top FBI agent charged with child porn distribution

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Donald Sachtleben was taken into custody and charged Monday after a nationwide undercover investigation of illegal child porn images traded over the Internet.

The 54-year-old resident of Carmel, Indiana, has pleaded not guilty and has a detention hearing in federal court Wednesday.

A federal complaint alleges 30 graphic images and video were found on Sachtleben’s laptop computer late last week when FBI agents searched his home, about 23 miles north of Indianapolis.

The arrest was a result a months-long probe, said the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, Joseph Hogsett.

“The mission of our Project Safe Childhood initiative is to investigate and prosecute anyone found to (be) engaged in the sexual exploitation of children,” Hogsett said in a news release. “No matter who you are, you will be brought to justice if you are found guilty of such criminal behavior.”

Sachtleben is currently an Oklahoma State University visiting professor, according to his online resume. He is director of training at the school’s Center for Improvised Explosives, but all references to his work have now been removed from the university’s website. There was no indication from the school as to whether it had suspended him. Calls to the university and his Indianapolis attorneys were not immediately returned.

He had been an FBI special agent from 1983 to 2008, serving as a bomb technician. He worked on the Oklahoma City bombing and Unabomber investigations, according to his university biography.

A separate LinkedIn profile filled out by Sachtleben says he is an “accomplished investigator with more than 25 years of experience in FBI major case management, counter terrorism investigations, bombing prevention, post blast investigations and public speaking.”

According to the criminal complaint, a federal-state joint task force had been investigating an Illinois man allegedly trading child porn images as far back as September 2010. That suspect was arrested in January, and a search of his computer reportedly led to Sachtleben, who was using the e-mail name pedodave69.

According to the affidavit, an e-mail from that account was sent to the Illinois suspect last fall, along with nine images of child porn. “Saw your profile on (a file sharing network). Hope you like these and can send me some of ours (sic). I have even better ones if you like.” Prosecutors say Sachtleben sent that e-mail.

Sachtleben’s wife was interviewed by agents during the execution of the search warrant and denied any involvement with child porn. She was not taken into custody.

FBI officials in Washington had no comment on the arrest.

If convicted, Sachtleben would face up to 20 years in prison on the charge of distribution of child porn, and an additional 10 years for possession.

The Justice Department’s Project Safe Childhood initiative was launched in 2006, leading to what federal officials call a more than 40% increase in the number of cases investigated. The project’s website says 2,700 indictments were filed last year alone.

The case is U.S. v. Sachtleben (1:12-mj-316).

16
May

Teenagers’ Latest Bad Idea: Drinking Hand Sanitizer

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Story By: by Nancy Shute

Keep the sanitizer on your hands and out of your mouth.

Teenagers can be pretty creative in their pursuit of a cheap buzz. Last month we reported on the “cinnamon challenge,” which involves snarfing down a spoonful of the powdered spice.

Now we’ve got teens quaffing hand sanitizer, and ending up sick in the ER.

A spike in the number of teenagers who became ill after drinking hand sanitizer in Los Angeles County — 16 cases in March and April, according to the California Poison Control System. Now there’s a flurry of reports from other parts of the country, too.

Hand sanitizer kills germs because it’s made with ethyl alcohol. That’s the same stuff that gives a glass of wine its pleasant buzz. I’ve never imbibed hand sanitizer, but my guess is that it lacks the complex bouquet of a good cabernet. Indeed, I’d guess that it tastes nasty.

But don’t take my word for it. Check out the reaction of comedian Jimmy Kimmel, who did hand sanitizer shots with actor John Cusack on Kimmel’s show last night. “I feel cleaner inside,” Kimmel said in the video (below). “And I also feel like I’m going to die.”

Teenagers apparently agree, and some have been using salt in an attempt to separate the gel from the alcohol.

Hand sanitizers are typically about 60 percent alcohol, according to Cyrus Rangan, an assistant medical director for California Poison Control. That’s 120 proof, on a par with some really strong vodkas. His organization has tracked about 2,600 cases of hand sanitizer ingestion since 2010, most of them in small children who ate it by mistake.

The spike in hand sanitizer poisonings among teenagers is “unusual,” Rangan says, which led him to turn to Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles to help publicize the issue. No one has died from ingesting hand sanitizer, he says, but ethyl alcohol is toxic.

“Parents should regard hand sanitizer as you would a medication,” Rangan says, and keep it tucked away. Inconvenient, to be sure, but “it does give you some measure of control.” The other option, he told Shots, is to go for less appealing foam hand sanitizers.

Those of us who weren’t born yesterday may recall teenagers’ attempts to get a buzz by drinking mouthwash, or Robitussin cough syrup, or even vanilla extract.

Mouthwash now has much less alcohol in it as a result, Rangan says. And many retailers have moved cough syrups with dextromethorphan, the ingredient that provides a bit of a buzz, behind the counter.

Will Purell be the next victim of teenagers’ pursuit of mind-altering chemicals, no matter how dopey the form?

16
May

Vietnam’s Sacombank plans $200 mln dollar bond

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HANOI |
Tue May 15, 2012 9:50pm EDT

HANOI May 16 (Reuters) – Vietnam’s Sacombank
planned to raise $200 million via a dollar bond on overseas
markets and proceeds would go to its banking business, the
lender said in a statement.

The Ho Chi Minh City-based bank would issue the five-year
bond in the second or the third quarter of this year, subject to
shareholder approval at a meeting on May 26, the bank said.

Sacombank said it would list the bond on the Singapore stock
exchange.

The bond issue would follow VietinBank, Vietnam’s
largest partly private lender by assets, which became the first
bank to have issued a dollar bond on overseas markets this year,
raising $250 million at an annual coupon of 8 percent.

Sacombank shares closed up 1.65 percent at 24,600 dong
($1.18) each on Tuesday.
($1=20,820 dong)

(Reporting by Ho Binh Minh)

© 2011 REUTERS (www.reuters.com)

16
May

El consumo mundial de petróleo subiría 1,3% en el segundo trimestre

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NUEVA YORK (Dow Jones)–El consumo mundial de crudo se incrementará en un 1,3% en el trimestre en curso a 88,13 millones de barriles diarios, debido a que la demanda desde China y otras naciones en desarrollo compensarán una caída en las principales naciones industrializadas, según una proyección publicada el martes por la Administración de Información de Energía de Estados Unidos, o EIA por sus siglas en inglés.

El informe de la EIA muestra que la demanda de naciones miembro de la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos, OCDE, como Estados Unidos, caerá un 1,7%, o 740.000 barriles diarios, frente a un año atrás. En la proyección de abril, el informe de la EIA mostró que la demanda de los países OCDE se mantendría prácticamente sin variación en la comparación interanual.

La proyección de demanda global del segundo trimestre incluye una revisión a la baja en la demanda global del segundo trimestre de 2011 de 170.000 barriles diarios y un descenso de 270.000 barriles diarios frente a la proyección de abril para el trimestre en curso.

La demanda de países no miembros de la OCDE en el trimestre subiría un 4,5%, o 190.000 barriles diarios, frente a un año atrás.

Se espera que la demanda de China, el segundo mayor consumidor mundial de petróleo tras Estados Unidos, aumente un 4% o 390.000 barriles diarios frente a igual período de 2011. Esta proyección incluye una revisión a la baja de 210.000 barriles diarios en la demanda del segundo trimestre de 2011 para China y una revisión a la baja de 320.000 barriles diarios para la proyección de abril para el trimestre en curso.

En 2012, el consumo global aumentaría un 1,1%, o 960.000 barriles diarios, a 88,88 millones de barriles diarios y el consumo de los países de la OCDE disminuiría en 360.000 barriles diarios en la comparación interanual.

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