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Originally Posted by Ken Moss
Everything is cheaper across the pond. If Americans and Canadians had to pay the same as us for petrol you'd be far too concerned with civil war to worry about anywhere in the Middle East....
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For someone who puts himself forward as being on the fringe of Politics and therefore supposedly possesing a modicum of common sense and logical thought processes your above statement is pure bunk, ....... the price we Americans and Canadians pay for imported oil and gas is exactly to same as you and every other oil importing country ....ever heard of OPEC ..... its a multi ethnic group of oil producing countries ......
Saudi Arabia ,Nigeria ,Algeria, Qatar ,United Arab Emirates(UAE), Iraq,
Iran, Angola, Libya, Kuwait, Ecuador and Venezuela
(Arabs from the Gulf, Black Africans from Nigeria and Angola, South Americans from Ecuador and Venezula),
ALL oil importing countries pay the same price at source (with one or two variancies due to differencies in quality) and World refining costs are pretty much the same all over.
Using your logic the British public should only be paying production/refining costs for North sea oil and Gas , so why are your prices so high ? because the British Govt. sells the stuff on the free market at the same World prices as OPEC .
I'm thinking what you meant to say in your posting is that you in the UK would be paying the similar prices to the US and Canada but for the high fuel pump prices imposed by your Govt.
As for us (the US) worrying about the Middle East maybe its time you in the UK took a good hard look in the mirror and faced up to the homegrown threats you in the UK are producing for export .