OPEC openly blackmailing the West
 

http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,487000,00.html

It certainly is no surprise, but it is a nice reminder of the nature of this cartel, and the intolerable vulnerability of the West.

The OPEC president has warned of doing too much research for alternative energies and trying to continue developing bio-fules. He said that this practice will make OPEC to significantly reduce it's investements into oil producing facilities, which would make oil prices hitting through the ceiling.

No further comment needed, I assume. It's almost kind of a war declaration.

This has always been their kind of response to alternative energy development. There are a few countries in the gulf that have less than 25 years known oil reserves left, and this factor alone clearly (in their opinion) leaves them vulnerable to oppression from some of their better off neighbours.

My heart bleeds for them. This organistion as well as the oil companies have us over a barrell (pun intended).
Just try and invent something that runs without oil or gas and see what happens to you.

I remember reading some years ago the editor of a magazine I subsribe to was contacted by a man who had invented a process where a car could run on water. An appointment was set up with the magazine for a demonstration.
Later that day the man called the editor and said he wasn't going ahead with demonstration because when he finished speaking with him earlier, he received a call from someone who said if he went ahead with the demonstration, his family would be mailed to him in pieces. Nice people!

Bah that is nothing! Look at what the Sudanese are threatening!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...053002157.html

Yet at the same time those crafty Saudis have developed an advanced process which reduces fuel consumption by 50% and is not within reach of the western world. :hmm:

We'd better get used to drinking beer then!! :lol:

Those women need to be careful....next they'll be allowing them to bear children and do the washing :lol:

Thats a seriously bizzare discussion!

Have a field day with these - 7 pages of them.

@AL

ROFLMAO :rotfl:

That old wives tale has been around forever(as in decades). If that were true it would be a matter of national security.

You guys are a bunch of commies. :lol: :rotfl:

My cable company, Comcast, operates largely the same way.

I guess the jizyah could be called "blackmail".

It's just a specific type of blackmail.

Communist Casting? Is it a KGB-recruiting show?