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Many terrorist groups from the Middle East use captured oil wells to fund their ventures. This gets mixed with other oil from the region via places like Turkey
by hervature 4y ago
Many terrorist groups from the Middle East use captured oil wells to fund their ventures. This gets mixed with other oil from the region via places like Turkey (a NATO ally). ISIS is reported to have made $500M in 2015 [1]. Anyway, the vast majority of the world buys this oil. This is why I say that Canada + USA which produce basically as much oil as Saudi + Russia should pull a DeBeers and sell "blood free" oil but obviously with a fun name like Freedom Oil.
[1] - https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/10/10/isiss-new-plans-to-get-rich-and-wreak-havoc/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/10/10/isiss-new-plans-to-get-...
- 14 4y agoThis will sound harsh but I just want cheap gas. And I am not the only one. So many families are struggling to get by and anything that adds to the cost of things going up would immediately oppose it. I am all for freedom oil but not when it would likely cost me more.
- rglullis 4y agoYou are living in the richest country of the world and you are still "struggling". Now imagine the lives of the other billions of people, and specially consider those people whose prosperity was undermined or halted by your government, just so you could have "cheap gas". I may be an antirevolutionary to the bone, but seeing some comments like these really make me reevaluate my priors.