You sound like a tree-hugging Green Peace activist.

Well, I’m not – just a realist, but I must say you are becoming very good at name calling

Look – we all know the world’s oil reserves are finite – that is a fact – From what I’ve read, as our population and demand for this resource sores, and as countries as huge as china and India demand more of it – the reserves will become increasingly depleted – even if I don’t see the end of oil in my lifetime, it will become so expensive as to be unattainable by most people.

So put your stock in oil if you like Maazi – I won’t

He expressed his sincere appreciation to those who brought this matter to AFAN’s attention — and said that AFAN had not been aware of the full implications of this Bill or the situation with CRCC until this came up and they had a chance to really look into it. He agreed that many of the good people at CRCC may be similarly uninformed.

I’m pretty sure they’ve already said that they oppose the bill.–or, at the very least, that they feel it merits modification.

Really Eddie … and where did they say that exactly … before now???

I admit I was slightly sympathetic to your statement on the other thread on this .. that .. to me .. raised the basic question of how far we go with boycotts or refusals to associate or accept money from certain groups we might disagree with at some fundamental level .. but I am not sympathetic to your statement here ..re: that you’re ” pretty sure they’ve …” I am interested in facts .. not your assumptions or guess work.

You sound like a tree-hugging Green Peace activist.

Well, I’m not – just a realist, but I must say you are becoming very good at name calling

Look – we all know the world’s oil reserves are finite – that is a fact – From what I’ve read, as our population and demand for this resource sores, and as countries as huge as china and India demand more of it – the reserves will become increasingly depleted – even if I don’t see the end of oil in my lifetime, it will become so expensive as to be unattainable by most people.

So put your stock in oil if you like Maazi – I won’t

In defense of mine, I’m suggesting that such broadly construed freedom of speech is quintessential to democracy. That’s not merely idealism, it’s a practical issue. How can people exercise their sovereign power if they might be prohibited from advocating their own policy positions? What would you do if Ugandans decided that your political beliefs were criminal? How could you go about changing that, if merely advocating your own beliefs were a crime?

As for your last point, I’m not answerable for ‘westerners’ and I don’t think I’ve demonstrated any hypocrisy here.

It’s only a “crime” for two consenting adults to have gay sex because you make it a crime. Those of us who live the USA, know that it is not.

Mike Bussee,

Well, I could argue that a man and four women who consent to polygamous marriage are “bigamist criminals” because Western nations make it so. But in Africa, we know that polygamy is NOT a crime.

No pun intended but oil is going the way of the dinosaur….The future will be in other, less destructive and harmful, fuels which Id like to think the US and other countries are helping to pioneer

Jayhuck,

You sound like a tree-hugging Green Peace activist. Yes, conventional light crude oil will eventually become non-existent. But that will take several years for that to happen. In any case, there are huge reserves of natural gas that lay unexploited and these will still be available in places like Nigeria after light crude oil reserves have run out in 30 to 40 years. In addition to the gas reserves, there are huge deposits of unconventional heavy oil or oil tar sands that are just beginning to gain attention after decades of being neglected in favour of exploiting light crude oil. These unconventional heavy oil/sand oil tar reserves in places such as Alberta (Canada) and the Orinoco Belt (Venezuela) are more than double the total reserves of conventional light crude oil currently consumed by the world. It is quite possible that in your lifetime you may not get to pop a bottle of champagne and celebrate the triumph of toyish electric cars over the fossil-fuelled vehicles. Even Barack Obama knows these facts, but as a politician he has to pay lip service to the liberals who are his greatest fans.This explains why Obama is making “green speeches” while his energy officials are out in the world discreetly scrambling for “non-green” energy resources.