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Originally posted by skippytjc
By your logic I am totally qualified to do so, thanks!
[edit on 29-4-2005 by skippytjc]
Originally posted by WeBDeviL
Now, a concentrated group of fanatics who use the religion as their back-up have scarred the religion as a whole.
Originally posted by skippytjc
They are in deep trouble.
But for for another reason: Once the dependancy on oil is gone, the Middle East will dry up and waste away. Arab nations that have built thier wealth on oil will become the thrid world countries they really are. They export nothing tangible but oil.
Oil WILL be replaced in our lifetime. The shift has already started. Big business is noticing the profitability in energy conservation and products that save energy. The Toyota Prius cant keep up with demand. And thats just the first gen hybrid!! Once hybrid and simluar tech is main stream, oil use will slowly deminish. The world is just one breakthrough away from making oil totally obsolete anyways.
If I were an oil rich Arab nation right now, I would start to make some friends with the big three (USA, Russia, China) and fast. Time is running out....
Originally posted by skippytjc
They are in deep trouble.
But for for another reason: Once the dependancy on oil is gone, the Middle East will dry up and waste away. Arab nations that have built thier wealth on oil will become the thrid world countries they really are. They export nothing tangible but oil.
Oil WILL be replaced in our lifetime. The shift has already started. Big business is noticing the profitability in energy conservation and products that save energy. The Toyota Prius cant keep up with demand. And thats just the first gen hybrid!! Once hybrid and simluar tech is main stream, oil use will slowly deminish. The world is just one breakthrough away from making oil totally obsolete anyways.
If I were an oil rich Arab nation right now, I would start to make some friends with the big three (USA, Russia, China) and fast. Time is running out....
Originally posted by Skadi_the_Evil_Elf
VERY TRUE. This is mainly the fault of corrupt govornments, who have based their whole existance and policy around oil, instead of thinking further into the future and developing more diversified economies. But they arent the only ones in trouble: the whole world, especially the west, is in deeper crap if they do not hurry up and start getting off their oil dependance, because the crap ain't gonna last forever
So its not just one single ethnic group in trouble, but all of huanity if we do not change our wicked ways, in oil, economics, and foreign policy and diplomacy.