Ireland 'Close To Oil Billions'

Well, this trip's gonna get a whole lot shorter now:

Bringing home the oil

Wow. When I first heard the tune I thought it was Johnny Horton singing Sink the Bismark. Remarkably similar.

Undoubtedly, between the Irish Greens and the high taxes, the Irish oil industry is in for a rough ride....

Maybe so. The Irish economy is in real trouble these days (for too long, too much of their 'growth' was simply based on 'growth') so maybe some common sense - and a common sense of desperation - will allow them to work together to make this happen.

Times mat be dark for Ireland, but now their booze can be too!

I don't know about that. Maybe it's my imagination, but from the outside looking in, it's looking like all of Europe is entering an, "every man for himself", mode. Boycotting fossil fuel, works great................until there's no food on the table.

My bigger concern, is that oil equals money. I hope it doesn't touch off any further bloody conflicts over there. Not holding my breath though.

No, the wealth will smoothe the situation and as long as there is food on the table and the house is warm they will be finer than they are now.

I hope so. Money makes people do strange things. Usually not good.