Re: Hummers

["LaSainte" <lasainte@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Paddy Apling" <e.c.apling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 4:19 AM
Subject: RE: Hummers


> This subject heading is mysterious to a Brit whose dictionary only gives
the
> definition "a person or thing that hums, as a bee, a humming=bird, a top;
> one who makes things hum."
>
> However, realising from the context that you are refrring to energy
reserves
> just prompts me to say that I agree with L V Nadal that such discussion
has
> little immediate relevance.  Stories of the running out of resources have
> been a constant refrain throughout the centuries and do not take account
of
> human ingenuity and discovery which have always, in the past, refuted the
> pessimists and are likely to do so in this century.
>
> It is worth recalling that - when wood was the main building material and
> source of energy - the shortage of oak for shipbuilding in England so
> concerned the government of Henry VIII that a law was passed requiring
every
> exporter of beer [there was at the time a considerable export of beer from
> England to the Low Countries] to enter into a bond to import sufficient
oak
> staves to manufacture an equivalent number of barrels.  Little could Henry
> imagine that eventually ships (and beer barrels) would be made of iron and
> steel, or aluminium !! - and that the main energy resource would be, first
> coal, and then that peculiar stuff seen burning in areas around the
Caspian
> Sea -(mineral oil)...  and, of course, there are now many more trees in
> Britain than there were in the time of Henry VIII, just as the coal
reserves
> in UK are still vast, though more difficult of extraction that they were
in
> former times.
>
> Predictions of the future should be left to "Old Moore"..... This does not
> mean, of course, that I am saying that concern for CONTROL of known oil
> reserves is not a major concern of the US government - it clearly IS - and
> it is not just oil they want to control - it is the whole world !!
>
> Paddy
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>

Comrade Paddy,

Control of all oil is control of the world.

cpleau