Comments on: Monsters Inc

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:19:54 +0000

Oil and http://spookinthemachine.blogspot.com/ the raving of a rational mind.

Great post Justin

By: Jim Bliss

Jim Bliss — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:19:40 +0000

This is true Justin, but it’s not quite as simple as looking at the quantity of oil the UK receives from Saudi. Saudi Arabia controls the world’s largest reserves of the stuff and that makes it vital to keep them “on side”. Norway’s reserves, for instance are rapidly going the way of the UK’s.

That said, the fact that global production capacity is currently peaking means that oil politics are going to be far less predictable than was previously the case.

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:43:05 +0000

Yes, indeedy. But Saudi oil only constitutes something like four per cent of the UK’s total oil imports (we get most of our oil from Norway if I remember rightly) That’s an awful lot of bootie-kissing for such a tiny slice.

By: Jim Bliss

Jim Bliss — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:09:25 +0000

It’s the oil we’re friends with dear boy, not the King or his subjects. The oil.

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:28:16 +0000

Damn tootin’. Nothing quite gets my goat like the UK/House of Saud loverama.

By: kate

kate — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:24:50 +0000

Aha! I KNEW you’d blog about this. Nice one.

By: michael greenwell

michael greenwell — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:48:58 +0000

that last paragraph is tremendous

By: Aenea

Aenea — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:31:19 +0000

Amen. Great post.

I do wish a Lib Dem vote wasn’t essentially a wasted one, they seem to be the only party with any kind of conscience. I can’t tell the other two apart, I really can’t.

By: ejh

ejh — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:42:23 +0000

a bit sodding rich

As, indeed, is….