OPEC Wants Aid if World Shifts to Renewable Energy

[Whaleboy]

[KrazyHorse]

**** OPEC.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Seeker
Aid for OPEC??

While children in countries that are actually poor live in literal ****?

I think they can suck the worlds collective @#!$

[Drogue]

I don't know. There economies are based largely on oil, and so if they lose that, they may be some of the poorest nations. I believe in voluntary aid to poor nations. Now, there are many extremely poor nations in the world, so they may still be rich enough to not warrent aid, but [b]if[/i] they do become an extremely poor nation, why not give them aid?

Sure, it's a bit much that they're asking for a guarentee, but if they're poor, then maybe they need some aid. It would have to be tied to their non-support of terrorism and removal of strict religious laws, IMHO, but if they do that, and are in need of aid, I don't see why they're any less entitled to it than other nations we give aid to.

[Drogue]

I agree with Seeker. If other countries are poorer, give aid to them instead. However if OPEC becomes extremely poor, on a par with some African nations, then it deserves it as much as those African nations.

[Dis]

did you not see what I said about investing.

Yes they will be poor if they squander all that money, but if they are smart, they will invest that money. I refuse to reward stupidity. I'd rather give the money to african nations who never had any capital to invest in the first place.

[Harry Tuttle]

Tell them to start saving their money.

Did anyone read the National Geographic article about two months ago about how the majority of domestic born Saudi post college graduates don't have jobs? And not because they're necessarily rich, but because they all went to college and received religious degrees? It said that most of the manpower in the country is from foreigners who either travel into the country to perform their jobs or from foreigners who have moved to the country after being offered nice employment deals? I mean cmon, if they have any reasonable expectations of surviving after the oil market dries up they have to start building some sort of educational infrastructure.

What kind of jerks would ask for aid from the rest of the world after having so much? There are a few billion people in the world who would kill to live like they do.

Greedy and lazy.