Bob Piper
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Bob Piper has been a Labour Councillor for the Abbey Ward in Sandwell, West Midlands, for nine years. He is a lifelong supporter of Aston Villa Football Club and a follower of Yorkshire County Cricket Club.

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Whose oil is it, anyway?   » Permalink  |  TrackBack (0)

Operation Iraqi Liberation (O.I.L.)

The Iraq hydrocarbon law would take the majority of Iraq's oil out of the exclusive hands of the Iraqi government and open it to international oil companies for a generation or more.

Posted by bobpiper on March 27, 2008, 10:01 AM  |  view comments (2) or add another



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Tim Worstall said:
March 27, 2008 10:46 AM | permalink

My God! How Terrible!
You mean that foreign companies would do the investment, the drilling, the pipelines, and the government would simply collect the taxes?
You know, like the North Sea?
Clearly vile, I agree.




Bob Piper said:
March 27, 2008 11:40 AM | permalink

I'm pleased you are seeing sense, Tim, there's hope for you yet. You'll be telling me there were no weapons of mass destruction next too.





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