The Energy Report - Morally Hazardous

While China whines about QE 3d it may be just what the doctor ordered for China's struggling economy. After having to raise fuel prices again last week inflation daemons are making it more difficult China to stimulate the economy. The Fed with QE 3d should send a flood of Cash into the Chinese economy so the Chinese can now decide to sit on their hands.

In Europe where the markets have been celebrating the Pledge by ECB chief Marion Draghi to do whatever it takes to save the euro is now finding it more difficult to get Germany on board. It seems Germany thinks that the pressure is off as well as the governments like Germany, Italy and Spain that now will find it easier to make excuses to delay reforms as QE3D has scared the wolf away from their door.

Still despite those worries the shock value and extreme bullishness of increasing its policy accommodation by purchasing additional agency mortgage-backed securities at a pace of $40 billion per month increasing its will increasing its holdings of longer-term securities by about $85 billion each month through the end of the year is not enough to take away our longer term commodity market expectations.

Oil also has to be prepared for more tensions that are red-hot across the globe. Fox News reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a direct appeal to American voters on Sunday to elect a president willing to draw a "red line" with Iran, comparing Tehran's nuclear program to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and reminding Americans of the devastating repercussions of failed intelligence.

His remarks were an impassioned election-season plea from a world leader who insists he doesn't want to insert himself into U.S. politics and hasn't endorsed either candidate. But visibly frustrated by U.S. policy under President Barack Obama, the hawkish Israeli leader took advantage of the week's focus on unrest across the Muslim world and America's time-honored tradition of the Sunday television talk shows to appeal to Americans headed to the polls in less than two months.

Tehran claims its nuclear program is peaceful. Netanyahu said the U.S. would be foolish to believe that, using football metaphors and citing example of past terrorist attacks on U.S. soil to appeal to his American audience.

"It's like Timothy McVeigh walking into a shop in Oklahoma City and saying, 'I'd like to tend my garden. I'd like to buy some fertilizer ... Come on. We know that they're working on a weapon,'" Netanyahu said.

The past week, Netanyahu has called on Obama and other world leaders to state clearly at what point Iran would face a military attack. But Obama and his top aides, who repeatedly say all options remain on the table, have pointed to shared U.S.-Israeli intelligence that suggests Iran hasn't decided yet whether to build a bomb despite pursing the technology and that there would be time for action beyond toughened sanctions already in place.

Netanyahu disagrees, estimating that Iran is about six months away from having most of the enriched uranium it needs and warning that letting them reach the "goal line" would have disastrous consequences.

Obama's Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, has said he is willing to take a tougher stance than Obama against Iran, although his campaign has declined to provide specifics. He has also aligned himself personally with Netanyahu, casting the Israeli leader as a longtime friend.

Dow Jones reports that an explosion on the export pipeline that carries crude from Iraq's northern oil fields to the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan in Turkey halted the flow for a few hours Sunday, an Iraqi Oil Ministry spokesman says.

Things are also heating up between china and Japan over islands with rare earth minerals. The AFP reports that "The mouthpiece of China's Communist Party warned Monday that Japan's economy could suffer for up to 20 years if Beijing chose to impose sanctions over an escalating territorial row. Anti-Japanese protests have been held across China in recent days over a dispute over a group of small islands in the East China Sea claimed by both countries but controlled by Tokyo. The row intensified last week when the Japanese government bought three of the islands, effectively nationalizing them, and China responded by sending patrol ships into the waters around them.

Trade sanctions between Asia's two biggest economies could cast a pall over growth on the continent, which major Western countries are counting on to drive recovery from the global slowdown. A commentary in the People's Daily newspaper said the Japanese economy has already experienced two lost decades from the 1990s and was suffering further weakness in the aftermath of the world financial cisis and 2011 earthquake.'' Japan's economy lacks immunity to Chinese economic measures,'' the commentary said -- although it added that given the interdependency of the two, sanctions would be a ''double-edged sword'' for China The commentary -- which only appeared in the paper's overseas edition -- said that Beijing in principle opposes economic sanctions to solve international disputes and would have to weigh carefully any decision to impose them. But it added: ''Amidst a struggle that touches on territorial sovereignty, if Japan continues its provocations China will inevitably take on the fight.'' The commentary said possible targets could include Japan's manufacturing and financial industries, exports and investments in China as well as ''strategic material imports,'' an apparent reference to rare earth metals used in many high-tech products.

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