DEAD ENERGY

Retired CIA operative Alex Cave was enjoying a cruse on his sailboat, watching a massive ocean going oil tanker enter the Pudget Sound. A brilliant silver flash appeared above the tanker. Suddenly a hysterical voice shouted over the radio, screaming a mayday from that ship. He went to render assistance, but when he boarded her, he could not find a single member of the seven-person crew, although all the life rafts were still in their brackets. There was not a drop of crude oil in the holds. In fact, they were as clean as the day it was built. The next day he discovered that the ship had entered the Pudget sound carrying 12 thousand tons of heavy crude oil but not a drop had been spilled into the water. Suddenly raw crude oil is mysteriously disappearing all over the world. As the remaining processed oil supplies begin to dwindle, all forms of transportation grind to a halt and people around the world start to panic.