The Growing Power of Petro-Islam

Why are Saudis allowed to fund mosque set up all over the planet and other religions not allowed to do the same in there their country? Why is this lack of reciprocity allowed ? Why makes them so special? This must change or they must be banned from building mosque in non-muslim countries.

Hidden beneath the Rockies lies a big oil field! 2 trillion barrels
Let us say it is true. How come everyone is not running to exploit it, like they exploit any other economic and financial benefit?
The other aspect is how much energy, and at what cost ??? financial and ecological, is it going to take to heat the oil shale up and extract the oil.
I suggest conserving resources; we should use renewable energy, such as Solar and Wind energy etc. to heat up the shale.
Another issue is they are waiting for oil to reach $200 per barrel so the government can reduce the deficit and outstanding loans.
I hope that is the truth and that there are no hidden agendas.

Technological hurdles to extract oil from shale
"Despite all the attempts to develop a shale oil industry in the United States over the past 100 years, the fact remains that no proven method exists for efficiently moving the oil from the rock. There are a number of candidate processes possible, but none has demonstrated a practical capability to produce oil."
Experts with field experience who are bullish on the prospects for America's oil shale. But they recognize that, here and now, we are still not there yet technologically.
There are a number of problems yet to be solved before US oil shale can be recovered on any type of meaningful scale, let alone a mass scale. And getting the extraction technology right is only one monkey wrench in the works with US oil shale. There are others.
For example, there are questions of air quality regarding domestic oil shale operations. How badly would these operations pollute the air? Would the levels be acceptable? Shell isn't sure.
There are questions of water availability. During the extraction process, how much water would be required?
Experts are not sure. An early "guess" is two to three barrels of water per barrel of shale. This could be a conservative estimate. Either way, will the massive amounts of water necessary for heavy-duty shale extraction even be available in the first place, given that the Colorado River Basin is already running low?
You also need to account for the environmental and ecological damage and restoration to pre-drilling condition.
American technology and knowhow will find the answer ??? all you have to do is wave the dollar bill in front of corporate America and they will find the answer ???by hook and by crook???. Then the executives, the shareholders and the politicians will laugh all the way to the bank.
Yehuda Draiman

I am of the opinion that saudi Arabia is a puppet of USA,the rulers are engaged in luxiorus life there is no freedom of experession in the country,in such circumstances what an ordinary person can do?
ENAIT

refrisher to commontators >>>>>>>>>>>>>> syex-peco- syex-peco

Actually, it was the British Empire who put the Saud Family in charge. Woodrow Wilson wanted to democratize them.

Saudi Arabia has the most proven oil reserves. US is not even close.

The US is not the top oil producer in the world.
Saudi Arabia is.

Please be reminded that the US is still the largest oil producer in the world and has the world's largest oil reserves. The problem is the US is also the largest oil consumer in the world and has been guzzling gas for decades and thus become a net importer. If the Americans can reduce oil consumption, the world can be a more peaceful place!

The problem is not Islam, as the author is pointing out. The problem is ISRAEL, the commander of the U.S.
The author forget the fact that most of the truobles in the world is cause by the policies of double standard by the west. They pursue all the aspirations of ISRAEL. They always try to extenguish any source of counter balance to the power of Israel. Time will come, one will rise unstoppable and bring equal justice for all as the true ISLAM is teaching.

You guys make it up as you go along (and are generally clueless)

*The movement to create the State of Israel started in 1900 not after WWII
*Palestine was largely unpopulated around 1900. In addition the Bedouin and Druze populations are pro-Israel/Jewish/West. Aside from the documented Ottoman census the fact that it was mostly unpopulated was document by various writers that travel the area including Mark Twain.
*Per the Ottoman census at the turn of the century of all the various groups in Palestine the largest single group was Jewish.
*The World Jewish Congress of 1900 started raising funds to buy all the privately owned land in Palestine from absentee landlords living in Turkey (Ottomans). Which they mostly did prior to WWII, often at inflated prices.
*During WWII Arabs made it illegal for Jews to buy land, however by that time the most of the privately owned land was held by the World Jewish Congress.
*The Arabs sided with Germany in WWI and WWII. In WWII the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem requested Hitler setup camps in the Mideast to exterminate the Jewish population. Generally the loser in a war, especially the aggressor, also loses land why not the Arabs?
*Circa 1900 Jewish pioneers fought malaria, drained swamps in the north channeled water to the desert in the south and build infrastructure, on land they purchased, thus creating a sustainable economy.
*Most of the people who are calling themselves ???Palestinians??? migrated there from other Arab countries BECAUSE of the Jewish created economy. For example Yasser Arafat was born Syrian.
*The PLO started its terror campaign; aimed at civilians, especially grade schools, in the 50s, before the ???67 war when the West Bank and Jerusalem went to Israel.
*The Gaza strip was controlled by Egypt but as part of the peace treaty with Egypt; Israel gave back the Sinai but had to agree to take over control of Gaza. Neither Egypt or Israel wanted to get stuck with Gaza.
*Arabs hiding fighters, rocket launchers and munitions in civilian areas is modus operandi. This includes the use of ambulances to transport military material/fighters. Thus the reason Red Crescent ambulances are searched.

By the way Potemkin actually built for Russia prosperous North Black Sea area (what is now South Ukraine) by supporting industry, agricultureand other busineses, religious and ethnic tolerance. One of his measures was support for population of region by escaped serfs and religeous dissidents. He freed new residents for several years of taxes and gaves them subsidies. So, compairing Potemkin activities with Arabs on their penisula is completely stupid.
By the way Potemkin cities and vilages were slanderous inventions of his enemies

Hirsch, you need to step back and take a look at yourself. Considering the fascist mentality in America, its horrendous crimes rates, and the genocide in Iraq and Afghanstian, Saudi Arabia looks like PARADISE in comparison. For the underhanded attempt to demonize the gulf states in favor of the much ballyhooed Israel, again the comparison of a train wreck of a terrorist state, Israel, bears poorly in comparison to Saudi or the Gulf. By rights, democracy has brought murder and mayhem to Israel, Iraq, and Afghanistan. NO THANKS

Go solar/water/wind/geothermal.

We need manahattan project type effort to get ourselves off oil. We can do it, manufacture our own energy sources, stop funding people who wish to murder us and enslave others.

Do it people!

We need oil. We need to profit of oil. So how can we intelligently tap into oil revenues without having the oil companies raise the price. The billions of dollars in profit that they make must be used to pay our debts and balance the budget. We are getting ripped off and this OIL monopoly must be broken up. Any president that can do that and not have these maniacs raise the price to over a hundred dollars a barrel, would truly be amazing. Oil compainis operating in foreign countries must be taxed according to their profits. They must be transparent so everyone can witness that they can pay tax and still make a healthy profit. Cracking Oil, the Drug compainies and the insurance companies would put us back on track.. This task is next to impossible and only a movement can reform these entities.

The Survival of Humankind, and Improving the World, Society, and Yourself!

Yet who can the world trust to be idealistic and moral enough to help all of humanity and the environment, and at the same time, be practical enough to make extremely difficult decisions that can and will harm a great deal of people?

Humanitism is a philosophy for the continued survival and perpetuation of the human race. Humanitists (people who believe in humanitism) do not have the luxury of trying again after failing. Humanitists must be more vigilant than environmentalists, because we will not have a second chance at survival.

The survival of humanity is more important than the well being of our environment; however the environment is necessary for humanity to survive. That does not give the right for big businesses to continue doing whatever they want with only minimal or no consideration for the environment, so long as our surroundings support human life. We need to protect the environment for the continued survival and future well being of humanity. Keep in mind that without the human race, there would be no one and no need to protect the environment. Therefore, humanitism is more important than environmentalism.

It seems that in the past 50 years the human race has pursued the money train, that such desire for financial gain has caused society to ignore and abandon honesty, values, morality and candidness etc.

The race to financial gain has caused our leaders and the executives of the corporate world to disregard laws, ethics and the caring for each other and humanity as a whole. Deception, fraud and outright theft are their new motto all for the sake of financial gain, fame and success.

It seems that for the sake of success and profit people will step on anybody, family friends, co-workers and anyone who stands in their way or take advantage of anyone that could help them achieve what they want.

That is not to say that honest and compassionate people who care do not exist, where honesty and integrity is a way of life for them, but they are a very small minority.

As we begin the year 2008, we should all look at the past and decide with determination that everyone will from now on contribute to the betterment of humanity, society and mankind.

We should all learn to live with each other and respect each other for the sustainability of mankind.

Compiled by: Yehuda Draiman ??? 1/1/2007

PS
The human survival instinct prods us to outlast afflictions and, if circumstances permit, to reach old age. Nothing, of course, could be more quintessentially natural than aging..