Thread: Russia 'seizes' Greenpeace ship after Arctic rig protest

Originally Posted by rebbu

Originally Posted by Zooheekock

Stupid, pointless analogy: The guy who buys coke has a great deal of choice over whether or not to buy it whereas the farmer almost certainly has very few choices. The situation with regard to oil/working in the oil industry is the complete reverse of this; I have very few choices about using oil (though I do restrict my use) whereas people who go to work in oil or mining have very many more choices.

So but that reasoning if every oil and gas worker stopped tomorrow what would happen?

That would be a blessing. Oil is an industry with extremely few employees, and the brake shoe of the global economy. It's a license to print money, a scam. It could be completely replaced by renewables in a matter of years, and unemployment wiped out. The new jobs and investments wouldn't necessarily mean higher prices, let alone in the long run. Speculation at the future exchanges and profits about double the price of oil that supply and demand require, government subsidies add a further premium. They are currently at 7 times the amount of subsidies for renewable energies, globally. Taxes add more costs for the consumer, in extreme cases in Europe doubling the price again.

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Originally Posted by rebbu

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

we use it. We are all at fault.

Same goes for paper!

But paper is biodegradable....in time.

Processed petroleum aren't.

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Originally Posted by VocalNeal

Originally Posted by rebbu

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

we use it. We are all at fault.

Same goes for paper!

But paper is biodegradable....in time.

Processed petroleum aren't.

Shit.
looks like you misquoted me there. Not me :-)

It wasn't a long or difficult post but clearly it was beyond your abilities. God only knows what oil workers get paid for but it's certainly not their intelligence

And to Zooheekock top half of the 1% of the world.

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

There are certain industries where the greed, money at all costs, culture is evident in the extreme. People in the industry will go to extreme lengths to justify the money they make from it while belittling all other concerns.

The oil companies, the bankers, and the pharma-industry have the financial and political power to start wars, relocate societies, intimidate, murder and control the courts at will.

People such as Socal choose to work in said industries. I choose not to.

Without oil, banking and pharmaceuticals we would be back in the 7th century, just where Islam would like us to be.

What you mean, perhaps, is that the corruption should be exposed and addressed, so that even though these industries help to drive the most advanced civilisation in the world, they might do so with less resistance from the socially and ethically superior.

And when it's clean enough for you, perhaps you might decide to contribute your skills and talent. Until then they'll find others to do it, and pay them handsomely.

Originally Posted by leemo

Without oil, banking and pharmaceuticals we would be back in the 7th century, just where Islam would like us to be.

Those goddamn Muslims. I knew they were mixed up in this somehow. How lucky to be a member of a forum filled with so many monomaniacal fruitloops; those slippery little bastards can't sneak anything past you, can they.

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

People such as Socal choose to work in said industries. I choose not to.

Yes he is a sicko and I hope he crashes his yellow banana..