oh the trouble oil can cause

[ensho]

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index.php?smp=&lang=eng

Nigeria


Several people were burnt to death and scores injured when fuel from a pipeline ruptured by an earthmover building a road on the outskirts of Lagos caught fire, the Red Cross said on Thursday. The Red Cross said a number of homes and schools were also engulfed by the flames that raged through Ijegun village in the Lagos district of Alimosho. "We have rescued some people and taken them to hospital and there have also been some deaths but I can't give any numbers for now because our volunteers are still on rescue operation," said one Red Cross official. Fuel pipelines criss-crossing Africa's most populous country are operated by the state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. Fire fighters were still struggling to extinguish the Ijegun fire on Thursday. Previous pipeline explosions in Africa's top oil-producing nation have been caused by vandals who drilled holes in the feeder lines, used to distribute mainly imported fuel across Nigeria, in order to steal petrol for sale on the black market. Nigeria is the world's number eight oil exporter, but most Nigerians live on less than $2 per day and many are prepared to take huge risks to obtain free fuel. At least 45 people were burnt to death last December in another village on the outskirts of Lagos when fuel they were stealing from a buried pipeline went up in flames.)
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hunger is no fun

[aquart]

1. So their government doesn't share any of the wealth?

Unlike the Saudis whose people pay less than a buck a gallon? Shortsighted, you sillies.

[ensho]

2. however Saudi women are not allowed to drive or even go out alone

talk about a patriarchal grip on women

[aquart]

3. In Saudi Arabia, the patriarchal grip is naked and the women are veiled.

Here, it's pretty much the opposite. But not as different as you like to think.

[ensho]

4. oh, I know all about the US patriarchal grip

been fighting to un-grip it all my long life

[aquart]

5. I should have said, "WE" like to think.