tanker

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/what-nearly-punched-a-hole-in-this-japanese-oil-tanker A Japanese oil tanker suffered....something Wednesday in the Strait of Hormuz.

The latest raid on the shipping lanes off of the Horn of Africa lands a supertanker that can haul about 2 million barrels of oil. (That's quite a bit.) http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-piracy19-2008nov19,0,5645455.story Perhaps, but let's look at the profit motive: is this...