Name: CHAN, Sin Fong
Subject: Oil - The Slippery Problem
Visit Time: 20/06/2008 1:52 AM
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It is beyond comprehension that someone wakes up one morning and decides that the oil is running out, and tells the world that the oil price has to go up. With so many experts and gurus in the US, they don’t seem to have any idea about the oil stockpile in their country. It is just ridiculous that after a few days of good run, they can come out with assessment like the demand of oil will be great due to forthcoming cold winter.
The Y2K bug scared the hell out of everyone (not me, though) the world might come to an end, aeroplanes would fall from the sky, the hospital equipment would cease to function, and all the mumbo jumbo. Al Gore travelled round the world warning the world about global warming and won a Nobel Prize for it. The world starts to press the panic button, worrying that once the polar ice were to melt, the land mass will be submerged like Atlantis – the lost continent. Did anyone ask Al Gore whether the world would still survive without the ice in the Polar Regions? Could the rising sea level be beneficial to replenish many drying and dried lakes/rivers, or turn the increasing areas of deserts into oases?
Kevin Rudd, on 16/6/2008, said that “right now we had the greatest global oil shock in 30 years. We know for a fact that prices are up 400 per cent since the Iraq war, 100 per cent in the last 12 months alone.” Does this imply that the oil consumption has increased fourfold since the Iraq War, or was it that the Iraq War, which started for some God only knows reason, created such a big shortage of oil supply? Has the world progressed twice as fast since last year?
If world leaders don’t have the guts to stop this spiralling increase of oil prizes, but to wait for the supply and demand theory come to realisation, the world will grind to a halt and cause irreparable and irreversible damage. The cruel and opportunistic oil suppliers and the middlemen who make megabucks out the misery of mankind are the greatest global terrorists creating untold hardship, starvation, social unrest to millions, if not billions, of people worldwide.
There is a simple solution to this complex problem – workers of these suppliers and companies unite and strike, bringing these heartless people onto their knees and beg for mercy!
