At least 500, 000 barrels of oilseep out every day by road through Turkey and Jordan and by pipeline through Syria, while thousands of trucks pass in the opposite direction, loaded with goods that the sanctions committee in New York never even hears about, much less approves.
They fear a pipeline burst would allow oil to seep into the Ogallala Aquifer, a massive water table beneath the Great Plains and one of the largest in the world.