Please, unsubscribe me. I have tried a number of times but keep getting unwanted mails from you. Karl Prinz
PLEASE remove me from this list I've tried a few times --- thank you ---------- >From: "Mark Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "crl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [CrashList] Daily Telegraph: Beyond Parody, oil is what makes the West go round >Date: Thu, Aug 10, 2000, 10:38 AM > > > Direct fire at Government, says BP chief > > ANOTHER normal day in the life of BP Amoco. Greenpeace has taken over one of > its oil platforms, British motorists are urged to boycott its pumps, the oil > price is rising again, oh, and the business made $40m a day in the second > quarter of this year. > This is the world of Beyond Parody, as BP would rather we didn't call it, > following its expensive design makeover, sunflower-style symbol and "beyond > petroleum" sign-off line. At present, there is little doubt that, beyond > petroleum, there is a black hole, so to speak. Without oil, BP would be a > sad little business, and, while there is more to the industry than gasoline, > it's what makes the West run, and what we all care most passionately about. > > BP was asking for trouble in scrapping the old shield, and replacing it with > something implying that the world can be powered by sunflowers, sunshine or, > just as plausibly, Sunny Delight. Just as the latter only looks like orange > juice, so the former only look like alternatives to oil. > > Sir John Browne, BP's feisty chief executive, was being suitably bullish > yesterday, as well he might have been. It already seems a long time since > crude cost $10 a barrel, when he moved to bag a brace of American oil > companies while prices were depressed. Both Amoco and Arco look like > bargains today. > > Higher crude prices bring the cash pouring in, and now it is worth finding > again, he plans to pour money out looking for more oil, to ease the Middle > East's stranglehold on supplies. This is the background that makes > Greenpeace's action so pathetic. As a protest against BP exploring in the > Arctic, it boarded the Northstar offshore platform as it was being towed by > barge to its site in the Arctic. > > Greenpeace plans to set up a communications centre on board, powered by wind > and solar power, to highlight the threat from global warming to polar bears > and walruses. It is almost Beyond Parody, and you might have thought > Greenpeace would know better after the Brent Spar. > > In that incident, aided and abetted by News at Ten, which preferred dramatic > pictures to intelligent journalism, Greenpeace bounced Shell/Esso into > abandoning its plan to dump the platform in the deep Atlantic. Only later > did the organisation quietly admit its estimates of "pollution" were wildly > overstated. > > As for the Dump the Pump campaign, it will make not a scrap of difference. > BP claims it is making less than 1p a litre from selling us petrol, and, > while it may be making $40m, or about �27m, a day from its world-wide > efforts, the British government is making �63m a day from fuel duty, merely > by banking the cheque. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Crashlist resources: http://website.lineone.net/~resource_base > To change your options or unsubscribe go to: > http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/crashlist > _______________________________________________ Crashlist resources: http://website.lineone.net/~resource_base To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/crashlist
