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Old May 19th, 2006, 08:57 AM posted to rec.travel.europe
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Following up to David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of
besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h offy

Isn't it interesting that the countries with the largest oil reserves
are the ones that are planning for a future without oil, while the rest
of the world blunders onwards as if there were tomorrow.


Saudi tourism as 'planning for the future'- this in a country which
still can't decide whether or not to allow women to sell women's
underwear to other women? Yeah, right.


Seems to me the rest of the world is looking for oil alternatives
and trying them out while the Saudis have barely woken up to not
training medieval religious fanatics.
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Following up to poldy

That's the thing, we can disdain the Saudi's plans for the future but
what kind of lifestyle will we have without cheap oil?

Certainly intercontinental travel might become something that only the
wealthy can afford.


It seems to me its the pollution that's a bigger hurdle than the
fuel.
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Old May 19th, 2006, 10:13 AM posted to rec.travel.europe
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The Reid wrote:

Following up to Dave Frightens Me

I think we have ascertained that you're English!


the absurdity of your anti English attitudes knows no bounds,
that's at least twice this week you have attached some old
******** that's in your head to the English. You are becoming a
bore.


I think you have to realise that he is **** stirring. It's not worth
arguing about it, or getting annoyed by it.

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Old May 19th, 2006, 10:43 AM posted to rec.travel.europe
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On Fri, 19 May 2006 08:57:13 +0100, The Reid
wrote:

If oil becomes a product you grow in fields in the future, it
might be fresh water that will be the new gold. The Saudis are
probably stuffed, either way.


There are a number of technologies that provide oil from algae, which
needs nothing but sun and space, something a large desert country
would have no problem providing.

Jim.
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Old May 19th, 2006, 10:53 AM posted to rec.travel.europe
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On Fri, 19 May 2006 08:57:13 +0100, The Reid
wrote:

Following up to Dave Frightens Me

I think we have ascertained that you're English!


the absurdity of your anti English attitudes knows no bounds,
that's at least twice this week you have attached some old
******** that's in your head to the English. You are becoming a
bore.


Awe, don't be like that Mike! How was that anti-English?
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Old May 19th, 2006, 10:54 AM posted to rec.travel.europe
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David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and
prestwich tesco 24h offy wrote:
wrote:

David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and
prestwich tesco 24h offy wrote:
wrote:

David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and
prestwich tesco 24h offy wrote:
Gregory Morrow wrote:

[]
Or you could visit Mecca during the Haj and watch the crowds stampede
themselves to death!

Strange as it may seem, millions of over hairy sweaty men crushed
together under the sun isn't exactly my idea of a good time either!

Really? I thought faggots enjoyed that sort of thing?

That's why I wrote it may seem strange.


That's a relief - I was concerned that my ideas about shirt-lifters
might be just ignorant bigotry.


You can have whatever ideas you want, but my comments about the haj
aren't about bigotry. If you want to name other similar events (I can
think of at least one, and it's nothing to do with muslims) I'll make
similar comments about them too.


And yet the one you CHOSE to comment on, complete with stereotypes of
Muslims, was the haj.

If it walks like a duck...

Mr B;

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Old May 19th, 2006, 10:55 AM posted to rec.travel.europe
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On Fri, 19 May 2006 08:57:13 +0100, The Reid
wrote:

Following up to poldy

That's the thing, we can disdain the Saudi's plans for the future but
what kind of lifestyle will we have without cheap oil?

Certainly intercontinental travel might become something that only the
wealthy can afford.


It seems to me its the pollution that's a bigger hurdle than the
fuel.


If we can diversify the types of fuel we use, the pollution issue
shouldn't be such a problem. It's the almost sole use of fossil fuels
that causes the imbalance.
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