Bønnemøde hos Shell?????

[polar 10]

Petrol pump pilgrims keep faith A prayer group in Washington DC is claiming the credit for the recent sharp drop in the US price of petrol. Rocky Twyman, 59, a veteran community campaigner, started Pray At The Pump meetings at petrol stations in April. Since then, the average price of what the US calls gasoline has fallen from more than $4 a gallon to $3.80. "We don't have anybody else to turn to but God," Mr Twyman told the BBC. "We have to turn these problems over to God and not to man." His first pilgrimage to the pump was prompted by fellow volunteers at the First Seventh Day Adventist Church in Petworth, a working-class neighbourhood of the US capital, who were struggling with higher gasoline prices. He led them down the block to the local Shell gas station to pray. And over the months since then, he has held similar prayer meetings at pumps all over the US. Prayer warriors "We were down in Huntsville, Alabama. We finished praying," Mr Twyman said. "Immediately the owners came out and changed the gas prices. They brought it down. We had marvellous success down in St Louis, Missouri." This week the group returned to the site of their first prayer meeting to celebrate. Singing "We shall overcome," they changed the words of the well-known hymn to "We'll have lower gas prices". Mr Twyman is sceptical that market forces might be responsible for the lower prices. But he and his prayer warriors have changed their motoring habits. "We believe not just in prayer - because we believe that faith without works is dead. So we've encouraged people to car-pool more and organise their days more, because it's a combination of faith with these other factors." Pray At The Pump plans to build on its success and drive gasoline prices even lower. In the words of Rocky Twyman: "We just thank God for blessing us with small victories and we expect greater things to come." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7566566.stm

[MRoderick 10]

jeg mangler ord

[Lollikken 10]

jeg mangler ord

Jeg foreslår: NUTS!

[Markowitch 12]

Intet er så galt, så det ikke er godt for nogen. Shells profit i 2007 var på 27.500.000.000 dollars i runde tal. Antager vi en dollar på 5 kr. så er dette 137.500.000.000 kroner i ren profit... eller 60 dages irak krig med alt betalt. Mod anonyme autoriteter som markedskræfterne kæmper selv guderne forgæves. Tillykke med profitten Shell. Privat virksomhed er konge i den post Friedmanske verden, lige fra rusiske oligarker til kinesiske prinsebørn. Krig og katastrofer i samarbejde med private virksomheder er en fantastisk mulighed og se nu bare Irak giver allerede en profit på 79.000.000.000 dollar takket være høj oliepris. Så send en varm tanke til bl.a. Irak når i tanker bilen, for det er Jer der betaler.