Are we being exploited by oil companies?

grrrrrrrrrr

I see very little about our oil and gas supplies being pilaged in main stream media but there seems to be a lot of people who seem to be 'radicals' who keep harping on about this. They keep on about the billions that the government have given away.

Are these people only 'crazy hippies' or do we have more oil than the Arabs? Only saw on the FG site that someone was on about it.

Can remember from geography in school that we have some but it would only become viable to mine if there was a significant increase in prices.

So whats the actual story with it?



EDIT: What I mean by radicals are those who have very different views to me. That is, they go lying down in front of oil lorries and stuff protesting and are usually retired with gray bushy hair and sound like they are from northern England. Anyway this isnt the point. Whats happening with our oil????

FreudianSlippers

Yes.

galwayrush

Apparently any oil we may have is not needed yet, as the world is not short of it yet. Popular conspiracy theory type people will claim that the west will wait until they deplete the middle eastern countries before we have to rely on our own..Maybe true, i dunno.

starbelgrade

It's nearly €1.50 for a litre of petrol these days.

Most of that is tax, so if we're being exploited by oil companies, we're being exploited even more by our government.

admiralofthefleet

they dont need to exploit us, all they have to do is ask fianna fail for free oil and gas they get it

fontanalis

How much oil/gas has been discovered by Shell?

My name is URL

Well define exploited..

I'd say yes, but at the same time I'm happy to be able exploit the ability we have to avail of oil and all of its glorious uses. It's just raw capitalism, and everyone appears to benefit from that. Still think it's a load of tosh though.. we were fcuking ourselves up for the long term 40 years ago.. now the long term is just around the corner.

Anyone seen the new Zeitgeist movie btw? =p

Ev84

Are we being exploited by oil companies?

yup

FreudianSlippers

Are oil companies being exploited by OPEC?

Topper Harley01

I doubt we are being exploited by oil companies, since there are no active oil fields in Ireland.

Captain_Generic

FreudianSlippers wrote: »

Are oil companies being exploited by OPEC?

Is OPEC Being exploited by the West? Is the West being exploited by crab people??

Caliden

starbelgrade wrote: »

It's nearly €1.50 for a litre of petrol these days.

Most of that is tax, so if we're being exploited by oil companies, we're being exploited even more by our government.

http://www.pumps.ie/FAQPricesExplained.php

85 cent per litre of petrol to the government.....
and 11 cent to Joe Soap selling it and yet every budget it still goes up.

It's the same price now as it was in 2008 (when the cost of a barrel of oil was 100+ dollars) despite the cost of oil being ~86 dollars/barrel

grrrrrrrrrr

I was asking about Irelands oil and gas fields specifically, not about duties on petrol. Do we have large quantities of fuel off our coasts that the gov are flogging off?

Dante

Captain_Generic wrote: »

Is OPEC Being exploited by the West? Is the West being exploited by crab people??

This statement is just ridiculous, how is OPEC being exploited by the West?

SEPT 23 1989

Who needs big oil when we have turf and donkeys

Ghandee

Well Oil Beef Hooked!

mconigol

FreudianSlippers wrote: »

Yes.

Ev84 wrote: »

Are we being exploited by oil companies?

yup

You're arguments are very compelling. It's all so clear now. :rolleyes:

Spread the word. :eek:

alandublin15

Captain_Generic wrote: »

Is OPEC Being exploited by the West? Is the West being exploited by crab people??

i for one welcome our new claw weilding overlords

Eric Cartman

are we - maybee

why dont we know ? :

main stream media : says nothing

indymedia & other left wing domestic terrorist bullsh*t lies media : says yes, so that pretty much means no

so to be on the safe side id say no