Gordon Brown asks OPEC to produce more oil..???

[mark69sheer]

WTF!!??


Gordon Brown screws our economy with hyper syealth taxes , now he finaly realises that he has squeezed the pips to the limit and the tax tank is dry.

So to keep feeding his overbloated inneficient civil service he has asked OPEC to please make more oil so I don't have to reduce my stupidly high taxes.

I can imagine the phone call...

GB....ring ring . . hello is that OPEC..
OP.. yes..
GB Its Gordon Brown here , I am in a bit of a pickle could you make more oil to bring its price down please..after all its your fault my citizens are financially struggling
OP...er We are nations with only one source of revenue , our oilfields and let me get this right , you want us to oversupply our staple product so it drops in price and your people can then still afford their stupid overinflated taxes?
GB..er that's about the size of it.
OP..muppet...
GB.. Hello?
GB..Hello? anyone their , hello???

[deevlash]

has he asked opec? I thought he was asking the north sea companies to produce more and we're not in opec. GB is a tit though, his sheer cheek in asking the oil companies to produce more whilst also stealth taxing us for his green bullst is so hypocritical it beggars belief. Not that Im suprised.

[Pesty]

Gordon Brown is an insignificant .

All he is trying to do is make it sound like he is on our side, he is felling our pain and trying to do something about it.
His minions are still saying that they want us to reduce usage rather than cut prices all for the enviroment you understand

[odyssey2200]

Ironically If we all bought a very economical car and reduced our consumption he is right, royally fked!!!

His 2 objectives are mutuall exclusive!

[RobDickinson]

Pesty said:

Gordon Brown is an insignificant .

I think, being ther PM and ex chancelor, he's quite significant. Still a tho.

[mark69sheer]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/money/2008/05/28/bcnbrown328.xml 

Yep he has asked OPEC...

He has as you say asked our own North Sea lot to produce more oil...

He hasn't a Brain in that head of his.
He wants our own supplies of Oil to be flooded onto the market to get him out of a short term squeeze..

Then in the future we will have less of it when we need it.

[odyssey2200]

Then he tries the double bluff of "threatening" more nuclear power stations.

The NIMBY responce will take the higher tax and motoring costs rather than risk a 3mile island in their back yard.

I guess the first privately (badly)run reactor will be in Nantwich as payback.

[Pesty]

RobDickinson said:

Pesty said:

Gordon Brown is an insignificant .

I think, being ther PM and ex chancelor, he's quite significant. Still a tho.

To me and you maybe he is. OPEC though? you think they give a st about him?

[YamR1V64motion]

hasnt North sea oil peaked some time ago now?

[esselte]

YamR1V64motion said:

hasnt North sea oil peaked some time ago now?

According to the radio this evening there's still around 30 years left....just past 1/2 way then...

[Dracoro]

How does increasing the supply (and use of!) of fuel sit with being "green". I thought he wanted CO2 emissions down, and does that by increasing the amount of fuel in the world.......... hmmmm.

[RobDickinson]

Pesty said:

RobDickinson said:

Pesty said:

Gordon Brown is an insignificant .

I think, being ther PM and ex chancelor, he's quite significant. Still a tho.

To me and you maybe he is. OPEC though? you think they give a st about him?

Depends if Him and his mate across the Atlantic point their bombers that direction.

[Pesty]

TVR Moneypit said:

And to those of you who think that a Conservative victory is a dead cert, well, don't count your chickens untill they have hatched.

There may only be one way out of this?

Viva la revolution

What worries me is that I don't think the conservatives will be much different. They still bang on about the enviroment beacuse our media has made it the "over riding issue of our times". They think there are votes in it.
I am possitive that if they go off message on global warming our media would rip them a new ahole so they dare not do anything else.

A lot of these initiatives that these s come out with have been stollen from the conservatives in the first place.

[Pesty]

RobDickinson said:

Pesty said:

RobDickinson said:

Pesty said:

Gordon Brown is an insignificant .

I think, being ther PM and ex chancelor, he's quite significant. Still a tho.

To me and you maybe he is. OPEC though? you think they give a st about him?

Depends if Him and his mate across the Atlantic point their bombers that direction.

OPEC picks up phone.

China?
Yes
Oh hello the west wants our oil can you help out?
No problem

[RobDickinson]

And what are china going to do? They have a large army sure, but fek all in the way of major transport, there just not geared up to fighting away from home, they couldtn even invade Taiwan. the west would pound them into the ground.

[fido]

RobDickinson said:

And what are china going to do?

stop making cheap stuff, and watch inflation go into double-digits in the UK/US?(that is, if they aren't already in double-digits here)

[Globulator]

mark69sheer said:

He wants our own supplies of Oil to be flooded onto the market to get him out of a short term squeeze..

A squeeze largely created by borrowing £100,000,000,000 (our annual quango bill) each year for 11 years, in a boom time with cheap fuel.
That's where the Tax and import inflation squeeze due to a worthless pound comes from.

So even if the oil price skipped back to 2002 prices - how exactly will this help??

[andy_s]

It's PR, the whole thing. They haven't a clue whether it's New York or New Years, they know that they won't affect world prices or supply but he just wanted you to know that he's doing something to save us.

[Guybrush]

Yes, he's showing he's listening to our concerns. Now it's confirmed, he's either a fool (yes very likely), or he thinks we're all fools.

[Jasandjules]

It's simply so he can say

"It's all the nasty, rich, oil companies who made 8 Billion in profit last year who are keeping the prices up" - i.e. deflect the fact that he made more than 8 billion from fuel duty for doing feck all, and to blame the rich corporation, in standard Nu Laba hate the company style, whilst seemingly forgetting exactly how much tax is on the pump price.

Or, putting it differently, same old wa***r.