Flag for Middle Eastern Union

[BADecker]

My suggestion for a flag would be:
- Green background (colour of Islam)
- Oil geyser in the middle of the foreground, surrounded by a ring of US (and allies) soldiers.

Are you suggesting that the US is stealing the oil, and upholding Islamic nations simply for that purpose?

The US and UK and friends certainly like the oil.

Actually the whole mess in the middle east can be traced back to the UK, and the infamous Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916, where the UK and France almost literally drew a line in the sand where they decided which of them would own what as they carved up the vanquished Ottoman Empire. Sykes looked at a map and decided he wanted "a belt of English-controlled country south of a line from the 'e' in Acre to the last 'k' in Kirkuk." ... completely disregarding local tribal identities and borders established over thousands of years. The result is that the modern borders in the middle east are arbitrary and a f--king mess. Now throw in a vast amount of wealth in the form of oil, stir twice and leave to simmer.

... so actually the flag should probably be a mess of lines against a backdrop of a Union Jack drenched in blood.

oil is worthless and it gets more worthless in the future, it was pure mercy for the developed world to consume the environment destroying oil from the middle east the people there would live like zergish savages, by now if no one would have bought their oil

Where do you live that oil is worthless, except that you mean 'worth less' right now than it was yesterday. If oil was worthless, people could drive their cars for free. As it is, even electricity that charges electric vehicle batteries comes from oil fired generators, if they aren't coal or nuclear.

[KingScorpio]

My suggestion for a flag would be:
- Green background (colour of Islam)
- Oil geyser in the middle of the foreground, surrounded by a ring of US (and allies) soldiers.

Are you suggesting that the US is stealing the oil, and upholding Islamic nations simply for that purpose?

The US and UK and friends certainly like the oil.

Actually the whole mess in the middle east can be traced back to the UK, and the infamous Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916, where the UK and France almost literally drew a line in the sand where they decided which of them would own what as they carved up the vanquished Ottoman Empire. Sykes looked at a map and decided he wanted "a belt of English-controlled country south of a line from the 'e' in Acre to the last 'k' in Kirkuk." ... completely disregarding local tribal identities and borders established over thousands of years. The result is that the modern borders in the middle east are arbitrary and a f--king mess. Now throw in a vast amount of wealth in the form of oil, stir twice and leave to simmer.

... so actually the flag should probably be a mess of lines against a backdrop of a Union Jack drenched in blood.

oil is worthless and it gets more worthless in the future, it was pure mercy for the developed world to consume the environment destroying oil from the middle east the people there would live like zergish savages, by now if no one would have bought their oil

Where do you live that oil is worthless, except that you mean 'worth less' right now than it was yesterday. If oil was worthless, people could drive their cars for free. As it is, even electricity that charges electric vehicle batteries comes from oil fired generators, if they aren't coal or nuclear.

worthless was an exxageration, but oil can be indeed worthless, in the past, heavy oil lakes where everywhere on earths surface, and people and animals died in them,

the oil price is crashing and soon also the euro will crash with russia saying i don't need to support weak economies.

regards

[BADecker]

oil is worthless and it gets more worthless in the future, it was pure mercy for the developed world to consume the environment destroying oil from the middle east the people there would live like zergish savages, by now if no one would have bought their oil

Where do you live that oil is worthless, except that you mean 'worth less' right now than it was yesterday. If oil was worthless, people could drive their cars for free. As it is, even electricity that charges electric vehicle batteries comes from oil fired generators, if they aren't coal or nuclear.

worthless was an exxageration, but oil can be indeed worthless, in the past, heavy oil lakes where everywhere on earths surface, and people and animals died in them,

the oil price is crashing and soon also the euro will crash with russia saying i don't need to support weak economies.

regards

All you are talking about is supply and demand. When oil crashes so far that oil companies can't afford to refine it, people will pay more rather than go without, and the price will go back up.


Crude Dives to $30, a Whopping $20 Below Cost of Production

The carnage was far worse than expected. Oil futures opened near $30, down a record breaking 27%.

That's the biggest crash in history.

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures are down over 4%. Halt limits just hit.

US Cost of Production

A Dallas Fed May 2019 report highlights the Average Cost of Production.

The average breakeven price of oil has fallen 4 percent (or $2 per barrel) over the past year, to $50 per barrel, according to the latest Dallas Fed Energy Survey. The $50 top-line figure masks some important differences. Areas such as the Midland and Delaware basins in the Permian Basin, hotbeds of shale activity, are routinely lower on average than other locations. There is also variability among operators; within the Permian Basin, for example, individual responses to the most recent survey ranged from $23 to $70.