History of Oil by Robert Newman
The reality of this finite resource called oil almost running dry, so they say, has finally hit home with a lot of people around the world. And most have to suffer paying heavily for it these days in order to keep their cars running. Except for those who can still tank up at mere sens in their oil producing home countries.
In Malaysia, though we are a net exporter of this resource, we have been slammed yet again with another round of petrol price increase* that has many of us slamming tabletops and mouthing expletives that we would normally not do even to our most detestable of enemies.
Never mind the sorriest of excuses that our administration would spin to us about the ‘justified’ drastic increase it’s time, nevertheless, that we learn more about this liquid gold and why some countries would wage wars to forcefully grab this resource from others.
And there’s nothing like being entertained while one is at it learning the facts. Hope you can retain them all at the end of this video by – would you believe it? – a stand up comic extraordinaire. I now give you Robert Newman and his History of Oil … enjoy
* 41% jump of 78 sen to RM2.70 per litre on June 5, 2008
what does the future hold for malaysia?
Dooms??
New Cabinet:
Prime Minister – Anwar
Deputy Prime Minister – Lim Kit Siang
Agriculture Minister –
Community Minister –
Culture Minister – Farish Noor
Defence Minister – Azmin Ali
Education Minister – Nga Kor Ming
Environment Minister – Teresa Kok
Finance Minister – Tony Pua
Foreign Minister – Ramasamy
Health Minister – Tan Seng Giaw
Home Minister –
Information Minister – Jeff Ooi
Law Minister – Teng Chang Khim
Manpower Minister –
Sports Minister –
Technology Minister – Nizar
Trade Minister – Khalid
Transport Minister – Liew Chin Tong
Tourism Minister –
Hi, only just discovered your blog. A good read. And thank you for Newman’s ‘History of Oil’, delightful history lesson, for someone, like Newman, with “way too much free time”! I hope you don’t mind, but I’ll be leaving a link on my blog so that my few readers can enjoy it too. Thanks again.