China’s Thirst for Oil Rattles Old Order – Peter Enav and Elaine Kurtenbach

From the AP, via the Washington Post:

China’s surging appetite for energy is engraved in the landscape of this gritty port city: waterfront piles of coal, gas pipes snaking along grimy roads, and tankers anchored amid islands where pirates once lurked.

Zhenhai is at the heart of a global energy revolution.

As China’s leading oil receiving center, the city provides this nation of 1.3 billion people with hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude per day to feed its galloping economy. [Full text]

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