LCD firms blame Gulf War II for panel price rises

INCREASED USE OF aeroplanes to deliver IT products rather than sea bound container ships will push up the source price of 15-inch and 17-inch LCD-TFT screens by around $5 a throw, it has emerged.

But if the reports are correct, some may see the move as puzzling or even profiteering, given that Iraq is not noted for its command of the High Seas.

Today's Economic News claims that both 15-inch and 17-inch screens will be affected by Gulf War II. Worries mean that the firms will ship the screens using air cargo and not containers.

That means that screens will cost around US $190 from the manufacturers in April, suggesting that perhaps Iraq has several huge battleships and aircraft carriers that have as their prime task the blocking of deliveries of TFT-LCD screens to the west.

Iraq's new battleships and pocket cruisers are likely to have trouble reaching the High Seas because the US and UK armies appear to have command of the only ports they have.

Unless Iraq is going to trundle its battleships across the desert, in a similar way to Norway's Haakon when he claimed suzerainty over Scotland all those years ago.

Just where do the TFT-LCD panel makers think we live? On the dark side of the moon? µ