Now there is an opportunity.  Could we get that oil under current market prices?  You see there is always good in someone!!!

People like Clouseau are right.  If we could have cornered the slave market in WW11. Lots of poles, jews, etc only too glad to have some work -  think of the profits we could have got with a deal with Mr Hilter from minehead.  You know it makes sense.

That were not directed at you my plumb it were directed at that wassock or whatever his 'andle iz.

clueless  iz wot it woz directed at
learn to bend the knee to the religion of pieces or you will also be in pieces starting with the head  chippity chop - did the french learn it from them??

Where does Khalid Abdullah fit into all this. I just love the pink hats he makes his jockeys wear.

To borrow your analogy moisok, during WW2 we could have told the Yanks we didn't need their food and resources and troops because we didn't agree with their brutal segregation of coloured people and Stalin could poke it too. However, sometimes needs must.

If only western politicians would stop putting the likes of North Korea, Syria & Zimbabwe on the naughty step then their sucking up to the new mafia don in Saudi wouldn't be so nauseating.

Earlier, he had been taken out for a trial in a building on "Chop-Chop Square", the notorious location of Riyadh's public beheadings. The trial lasted 10 minutes. The chief prosecutor was Ibrahim, the man who had been his chief torturer. The judges asked Mr Mitchell if he had confessed to the bombing. He tried to explain that he had been tortured - they dismissed that, and announced his punishment: crucifixion, then partial beheading, after which his body would be left out to rot in public.

Mitchell was anaesthetic technician from Glasgow

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4196147/They-will-burn-in-hell-for-what-they-have-done-to-me.html

The people that need to 'get real' are the hypocrites who have one rule for one and one rule for another in the name of short term national interest. The blowback from these actions is getting worse and worse and will one day spiral out of control. The current Western strategy will not end well for us.

The alternative as far as the Saudis is concerned is to invest in energy storage but too many people at the top make too much money from oil - yet more short-termism.

Clouseau
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Have you lot actually thought this through or just getting off on the, oh, so predictable, "It's all about the oil" mantra.

You may have noticed a few things about the region. Would you prefer a completely unstable region?

Sometimes, in the real world, countries have to be pragmatic. Saudi produces about 14% of the world's oil. If you want to keep the lights on and your central heating working and your buses and trains and air-planes and your little run-around, in fact pretty much everything that gets produced in the world, including your computer and your mobile phone, running then best keep them onside.


So ehat can you produce from oil that you can't make from coal?