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| Thread ID: 59281 | 2005-06-27 05:55:00 | Oil.$100 a barrel? | Cicero (40) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 367299 | 2005-06-27 05:55:00 | It's all right,it's only some muslims. www.telegraph.co.uk |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 367300 | 2005-06-27 05:59:00 | Sorry wrong forum,should have been chat. | Cicero (40) | ||
| 367301 | 2005-06-27 08:17:00 | hooray for company fuel cards.. | plod (107) | ||
| 367302 | 2005-06-27 12:41:00 | Why not, it's their oil after all. They are hated by Westerners (non-white, muslim, part of the axis of evil, wear rags on their heads, speaka no english), and so I suppose you can't blame them for hating Westerners back. Iranians of all peoples, should be pretty pissed at the way they have been treated, especially by the Americans and the British. |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 367303 | 2005-06-28 01:01:00 | Before everybody get's too worried about $100 per barrel, I did a calculation a while back, involving distribution, refining, add-on's, taxes, etc. US$100 per barrel = NZ$2.00 a litre US$200 per barrel = NZ$3.00 a litre Remember in the UK they already paying NZ$3.00 a litre. Let's not panic here. It may stop some people buying their 4x4's for the school run's |
KiwiTT_NZ (233) | ||
| 367304 | 2005-06-28 01:11:00 | or there VR-4 for crusing LOL | plod (107) | ||
| 367305 | 2005-06-28 01:36:00 | To understand the situation in Iran, one has to go back to at least the early 1950s and the "Abadan Crisis", and the overthrow of Prime Minister Mossaddeq by the British ably assisted by the CIA, or even back to 1908 when oil was discovered there and Abadan became the main oil centre. As with all Arab oil countries they were dismissed as 'wogs' and their oil plundered by the west. Mossaddeq was portrayed as the villain in the British press at the time, all he was doing was trying to bring Iran into the modern world, and get some monetary benefit for all the oil being removed by Shell. http://mohammed-mossadegh.biography.ms/ |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 367306 | 2005-06-28 03:02:00 | To understand the situation in Iran, one has to go back to at least the early 1950s and the "Abadan Crisis", and the overthrow of Prime Minister Mossaddeq by the British ably assisted by the CIA, or even back to 1908 when oil was discovered there and Abadan became the main oil centre. As with all Arab oil countries they were dismissed as 'wogs' and their oil plundered by the west. Mossaddeq was portrayed as the villain in the British press at the time, all he was doing was trying to bring Iran into the modern world, and get some monetary benefit for all the oil being removed by Shell. http://mohammed-mossadegh.biography.ms/ Mossadeq was also a democratically elected leader. Yes, Iranians did, and probably still do, possess a democracy ethos. What angered the British and the Americans at the time was that he was trying to wrestle control of the oil from foreigners who were, as you say, plundering it. The British and the Americans later replaced Mossadeq with the Shah. When that did not turn out so well, the Americans supported a vile, murderous strongman to the east, Saddam Hussein of Iraq. That did not turn out so well either. In the end, all the westerners had to suffer was little higher prices at the pump and the automakers were forced to innovate to make more fuel-efficient cars. The Iranians and Iraqis are still suffering horrendously. God help the Saudis when they decide to throw off the yoke of American and Western exploitation. |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 367307 | 2005-06-28 03:06:00 | Before everybody get's too worried about $100 per barrel, I did a calculation a while back, involving distribution, refining, add-on's, taxes, etc. US$100 per barrel = NZ$2.00 a litre US$200 per barrel = NZ$3.00 a litre Remember in the UK they already paying NZ$3.00 a litre. Let's not panic here. It may stop some people buying their 4x4's for the school run's And what did CNG stand for again? Remember when Muldoon (remember that guy?) was subsidising CNG installations? My dad got one of these installations - and one of the biggest tanks you could get at the time: a huge 70 litres. Five years later, they were pulling up and selling the CNG plants from the gas stations to other countries. I guess they will have to start all over again. |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 367308 | 2005-06-28 10:57:00 | You know, the really terrible thing about our use of oil is the sheer waste of such a valuable resource. Oil is a complex soup of organic hydrocarbons. We can use it for medicines, specialist plastics, and as a source of many molecules for use in chemical and biological compounds. Instead we burn the stuff as if we can't get rid of it fast enough. Almost as if it was a nuisance. Oil is a miracle. Composed of compressed organic matter (much of it primordial plankton) it has taken tens of millions of years to form. And we are going to use it up within 200 years. :badpc: |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
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