[American in Israel]

The Saudi’s and the Rockefellers are bedmates.

[Carry_Okie]

I'm really tired of seeing FReepers blame the Saudis for green racketeering when, by far, the bulk of funding and infrastructure for the greeies comes from the tax-exempt "charitable" foundations of American heirs to vast industrial fortunes. The Saudis aren't even second place when it comes to green racketeering money. The taxpayer ponies up for the lawsuits every time the complicit agencies the greenie lawyers sue "loses" the case!

Just stop it. It isn't true. Yes the Saudis are evil. Yes they fund mosques and madrassas worldwide and it is very destructive. But energy racketeering by "environmental" groups for fun and profit is an American forte to which the Saudis are themselves green. Heck sauropod, it was you who found for me the material on the Convention on Nature Protection. That was 1941. Do you really think the Saudis were into that stuff back then? No way.

Remember: it isn't the oil companies themselves that are playing this game (although they certainly did when it came to MTBE in gasoline although the NRDC was the lead player (same thing)), it is their major stockholders who fund the greens, often laundering the money through other foundations. And yes, when you buy that stock you are a beneficiary.