The Politics of Oil

[Oil Investor]

Investors are in it to win it. Speculators are hare-brained Johnny-come-latelies, who'll jump ship as soon as shares dip or who "Sell, sell, sell!" after the first few rises. But I know - based on my astute cerebral machinations - that oil is here to stay and that, therefore, investing in it is absolutely a one stop road to profit. Why would I tell you? I mean, I'd want all the profit for myself, right? Wrong. See, I believe in oil. I don't just know I'll make money out of it, I like it! 'Cause I know it's the best thing God put on this planet!

Global warming excites me -- it creates so many economic opportunities. Larger crop yields in previously poor-performing Northern European agricultural sectors, etc. Revival of British tourist industry. Job creation through opportunites of the cleaning up of climate disasters. Eradication of poverty is what drives my love affair with petroleum. Tackling climate change does and will harm the world's poorest who depend on deforestation and farming with chemicals in order to make money through selling land and through higher crop yields. So if you're wise you'll do the same as me and invest in oil. Get in there quick 'cause soon Iraq's parliament will have passed legislation to enable private companies to start digging in what might be the world's more fruitful oil reserves and oh yeah, you betcha, I got plenty of shares in ExxonMobil. Always back a winner.

Don't rule out PetroChina or SinoPec though. Operating a duopoly in China, they both pose a significant threat to dominant American and European oil companies. Have a good day and make your riches and be merry!

[El]

Whose sock puppet are you, good sir?

[RobertN]

Just ignore the stupid capitalists - selfish bastards!

[purposefulinsanity]

  Smelly socks.

[duncvis]

Trollopoly, anyone?

[RobertN]

Smelly socks.

And big cocks...

[Oil Investor]

Just ignore the stupid capitalists - selfish bastards! 

So I guess Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro et al. weren't selfish at all? I suppose no class structure operated in their society? And it was all just capitalist government and media sources making up out of thin air the gross human rights abuses of anyone who opposed the ruling parties of communist states?

I'd rather invest in capitalism than belive in socialism - a proven failure. It doesn't make sense to play the same old broken record when you know it's not a tune people want to listen to. The fact is capitalism helps people out of poverty just as much as socialism. Americans always had a better standard of life than citizens of China and Russia and that's because they embraced the free market.

[purposefulinsanity]

You not going to post an introduction Oil Investor?

[Lucifer]

you know, PI, i was just thinking...

WE know what to do with socks, don't we?  (after we've knitted them, i mean).    sounds about right for this waste of oxygen.

[Oil Investor]

Yes, why not. Forgive me, my social skills lack polish what with my having spent too much time in my Cotswold retreat of late. The name's Jonathan Greggor. Born on the 4th of August, 1957 I've had a long and varied career in many of the UK's top companies. Despite lacking the communicative finesse necessary in the networking world of business, I nonetheless worked my way up to the boardroom through sheer hard work and lateral thinking. I'm retired now and with more time on my hands have found little to do except keep track with my investments. I recently realised upon reflection that I would prefer to lead a more social life and so talked to my doctor about it who diagnosed me with Asperger's Syndrome.

[RobertN]

Just ignore the stupid capitalists - selfish bastards! 

So I guess Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro et al. weren't selfish at all? I suppose no class structure operated in their society? And it was all just capitalist government and media sources making up out of thin air the gross human rights abuses of anyone who opposed the ruling parties of communist states?

I'd rather invest in capitalism than belive in socialism - a proven failure. It doesn't make sense to play the same old broken record when you know it's not a tune people want to listen to. The fact is capitalism helps people out of poverty just as much as socialism. Americans always had a better standard of life than citizens of China and Russia and that's because they embraced the free market.

 

Taken straight out of an Ayn Rand textbook, no doubt. You free market fuckwits are all the same. Just the same regurgitated shite time and time again. The only reason you lot are still in power is because you control the media, control the army, and control the electoral processes. You stand for democracy - my arse! Its only your lies and deceit that keep the current world order the way it is. People want change, and its not the sort of change that you aspire to. Sure - Stalin was a tosser, but so are you, and so is Bush. The endless pursuit of profit at the expense of everything else is what is destroying this world. You may not realise it, but the average person in an ex-communist country is now poorer than they were in 1980, thanks to the oligarchs stealing what used to be public property. 

We are at the boom of capitalism at the moment, but the Earth's resources are finite. Soon, the bust will come...

[Eclair]

You not going to post an introduction Oil Investor?

Will he cope with an Ask Away thread?

[purposefulinsanity]

You not going to post an introduction Oil Investor?

Will he cope with an Ask Away thread?

   You never know.

[Eclair]

You not going to post an introduction Oil Investor?

Will he cope with an Ask Away thread?

   You never know.

Some good names for it come to mind!

[Lucifer]

indeed, but they might not be suitable for small children.