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20 comments on Nigeria: Energy Infrastructure Firestorm

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totoneila on July 8, 2007 - 3:09pm

Hello TODers,

The sad thing about the whole affair is that a wisely preplanned biosolar transition combined with Peakoil Outreach would have been much cheaper, less conflict generating, and more environmentally sound.

As mentioned before: if an exporting country trades FFs for only biosolar goods, they then enjoy far-reaching advantage.

Maybe someday we will wise up and rise above our lizard brain to use the higher brain function. Oh well, I remain a fast-crash realist until then.

Bob Shaw in Phx,Az Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?

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chainsaw4wood on July 8, 2007 - 5:04pm

Google Marc Rich + Nigeria - how certain rulers spirited billions out of the country, just like Marc helped the Oligarchs in Russia move out mountains of zinc, aluminum, copper and other stockpiled strategic materials. Since Scooter, when managing partner at Dechert, Price & Rhodes, was Rich's personal attorney - and Clinton found it in his heart to pardon Rich (or was it the $$ Denise forked over to the Democrats and the Clinton Library?)- many spirals seem to end up in Zug, Switzerland.

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rainsong on July 8, 2007 - 9:41pm

I read that there was low-level Nigeria conflict beginning in the 1980's, more conflict in the 1990's, and conflict in the 2000's. In the third decade of conflict the oil is yet flowing. There is conflict in the United States, murders every day of the year. People went to work and carried on. Iraq was blowing up everywhere, the oil flows, people went to work, no work no pay. No oil flow, no money. More money not cry. If the war in Nigeria were to end, would there be celebration, or mourning?