Banana wars

[viper37]

Madness?  This is Chiquita!!!

Boycott Chiquita Bananas over its oilsands stance

Neil will never eat a banana again.

[HVC]

there are other banana barons out there. neil shall survive.

also, every time i hear about this story i get the damn Brazillian chiquita banana song stuck in my head.

[Grey Fox]

Seriously, Chiquita stands up for something?

[Jacob]

Organized by a "pro tar-sands advocacy group" called Ethical Oil? 

[viper37]

yes, I tought all of this funny given the protagonists and their ... unusual stance.

[Maximus]

Organized by a "pro tar-sands advocacy group" called Ethical Oil? 

Is there something unethical about the tar sands?

[viper37]

Organized by a "pro tar-sands advocacy group" called Ethical Oil? 

Is there something unethical about the tar sands?

increased pollution, environmental damages, government subsidies, oligopolistic practices from oil companies exploiting the fields, the way the same companies act when outside of Canada, etc, etc.

[Maximus]

None of which is all that different from oil production elsewhere.

[viper37]

None of which is all that different from oil production elsewhere.

probably.  Wich is why "ethical oil" is silly.  It's no more ethical than anywhere else.

[HVC]

None of which is all that different from oil production elsewhere.

probably.  Wich is why "ethical oil" is silly.  It's no more ethical than anywhere else.

It's a round about way of saying non-arab oil. I know they got some ads pulled becasue they were saying that by buying arab oil you were killing women and freedom fighters.

[Valmy]

It's a round about way of say non-arab oil. I know they got some adds pulled becasue they were saying that by buying arab oil you were killing women and freedom fighters.

Well I guess that is sorta true if you buy Saudi oil.  But the Saudi's are our buddies so why do we care if good guys are killing women and freedom fighters?

[Jacob]

Organized by a "pro tar-sands advocacy group" called Ethical Oil? 

Is there something unethical about the tar sands?

Depends on your ethics I suppose. I don't have a particular beef with tar sands oil, but "Ethical Oil" is still funny for an industry astroturf group.

[lustindarkness]

The title of this thread reminds me of Cien Años de Soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude) by Gabriel García Márquez.

[Maximus]

It's a round about way of saying non-arab oil. I know they got some ads pulled becasue they were saying that by buying arab oil you were killing women and freedom fighters.

It's more than that. No one is being killed or otherwise oppressed for tarsands oil. In leftist speak it's blood-free oil.

[Neil]

Is there something unethical about the tar sands?

increased pollution, environmental damages, government subsidies, oligopolistic practices from oil companies exploiting the fields, the way the same companies act when outside of Canada, etc, etc.

It's still more ethical than Quebec's hydropower.