It warms the cockles of my heart to see that someone is out there thinking up useless, pointless ways of spending all that ill-gotten money! The cost of the tower? Five billion pounds sterling. Uh, how many millions of pounds sterling is that? - more money than most (poor, starving) African states even dream of, that’s for sure, States, which, according to the newspaper report I read, we will be able to see from the top of the tower. I bet the Africans will appreciate us snooping on them! Not!
How about spending some of that easily-made money on building schools and hospitals, paying nurses and teachers (who have the future of our children in their hands) a decent wage? Yeah, right!
If the oil producing countries have that much money to spend (just to remind you where it came from, continues to come from: 'profits from record high oil prices'), why are we being charged obscene prices for every barrel of oil which then reflects on the economy, on the price of just about everything we buy? I thought the price hikes were due perhaps to the rising cost of living, of labour, overheads, whatever... No! It’s greed, pure and simple. An insult.
I protest!
We should all protest.
Imagine that if man really thought about others and not just himself, it would be so easy to say: “Okay, everyone, I find paying so much for everything (putting huge, sickening profits into the wrong pockets) detrimental to my security, my family’s security, to future generations’ security. What are we going to do about it? One simple, simple little move would be to forego the car, motorbike, scooter, or whatever else we drive, and travel by public transport… FOR ONE MONTH!”
One month of not buying petrol (gasoline) equates to billions in lost revenues for the (voracious, insatiable, insensitive) oil producing countries and their puppet oil companies. It might actually compel them to lower their prices; or we keep boycotting oil until they do.
Not only that, imagine how the environment would benefit. Clean air (okay, I’m exaggerating here, though it would help, be a start anyway) would be another plus.
I am one very fed up citizen of the world.
Let’s declare a “No Oil Month!” and actually respect it.
We walk everywhere, use public transport, take the train…
No more talk. Action.
Imagine that if man really thought about others and not just himself, it would be so easy to say: “Okay, everyone, I find paying so much for everything (putting huge, sickening profits into the wrong pockets) detrimental to my security, my family’s security, to future generations’ security. What are we going to do about it? One simple, simple little move would be to forego the car, motorbike, scooter, or whatever else we drive, and travel by public transport… FOR ONE MONTH!”
One month of not buying petrol (gasoline) equates to billions in lost revenues for the (voracious, insatiable, insensitive) oil producing countries and their puppet oil companies. It might actually compel them to lower their prices; or we keep boycotting oil until they do.
Not only that, imagine how the environment would benefit. Clean air (okay, I’m exaggerating here, though it would help, be a start anyway) would be another plus.
I am one very fed up citizen of the world.
Let’s declare a “No Oil Month!” and actually respect it.
We walk everywhere, use public transport, take the train…
No more talk. Action.
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2 comments:
Questo sarebbe una cosa da vedere.
Stella
We just have to create a number of us big enough to cause enough damage.
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