Comments on: The World’s Most Exciting Market – Until They Spoiled it

By: sage

sage — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:26:31 +0000

alot of sour grapes in the comments here – typical of the north atlantic anglo-judeo populace.

also, martin is full of bais & shit.

finally, the govt. of alaska non-corrupt – my ass, lol

suck on eggs you monkeys. the oil is ours, you’re welcome to assist in it’s development for a fee/compensation consumerate w/ your effort & risk. dont like it, go to russia. pradators not welcome.

By: Kevin Beck

Kevin Beck — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:33:28 +0000

This sounds just about par for the course: A major stream of riches is available for the citizens of the country, and the government has to stick its nose in the middle and muck it all up. If only they would learn….

By: Bob Lundy

Bob Lundy — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:34:55 +0000

Totally agree with #2 comment above. Note that none of these socialist-left leaning countries were as poor as China after the Cultural Revolution. Good thing their government didn’t allow poor voters to elect the politicians. Ultimately the government wised up and went capitalistic, and look at where they are now. Even the Chinese are trying to teach proper Capitalism to Mr. Obama!

By: Government=Politicians not 'the people' or 'the poor'

Government=Politicians not 'the people' or 'the poor' — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:32:52 +0000

This scam of having government intervention in the economy to help the poor has been exploited for decades by socialist-democrat-populist politicians to lever political power in their favor, this has been demonstrated several times in serveral scenarios by history to have lead these countries with a lot of ‘poor people’ to be poorer if not poorest, this system based on ‘politics in the name of the poeple or poor’ has, does not and will never work to generate wealth or ‘common wealth’. The thing is that the poor keeps voting for this socialist scam…I guess the ‘poor’ is not that smart huh..

By: Tomás Rosa Bueno

Tomás Rosa Bueno — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:50:21 +0000

Dear Martin,

you forgot to mention that the existing royalty-paying scheme was based on *risk*: we don’t know whether there’s any oil down there. If you want us to drill and find out, at the risk of drilling a dry well, we’ll do it, at a price. The risk is ours, the bigger share of profits should be ours too.

There’s no risk involved in subsalt drilling. The thing is practically a 500 x 80 miles lake of oil. Anywhere you drill you’ll hit oil. Therefore, there’s no reason to keep giving the bigger share of the profits to companies which will not be risking anything.