OIL = ENERGY
Living creatures cannot exist without ENERGY.
A million Iraqi's have already died in the war to own and control it and the buttociated pipelines.
But keep things in proportion. More people die from motor accidents, AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, civilian gunshot and knife wounds and a shortage of clean water.
Starvation and a simple shortage of food is just another facet of the general shortage of Energy. There are too many people on this Earth. Only the Chinese, a wise, ancient, civilised race, are doing anything about it.
American guided missiles and other weapons of mbutt destruction are merely a stop gap. Too indiscriminating between age groups. Is a general culling becoming necessary?
Can we start with everybody above the second-childhood age of 75? We would soon get used to the idea and it would solve the pensions, income-tax , Euro-rebate and farm-subsidy problems almost overnight.
Will the Chancellor of the Exchequer in No.11 Downing Street please take note. And arrange for Blair to be chained to the wall in the Tower of London, as a war criminal, without access to a solicitor, not just for 90 days but for an indefinite period at Her Majesty's Pleasure.
Well, you DID ask for opinions. ---- Reg, G4FGQ
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unusual sideways moment 1500Ian What sort of 4x4? You seem to be the cautious type ;) Couple of years ago, I got stuck in Edinburgh with bad snow everywhere. I had to double back...
