Can you say, "Proctologically Violated", boyzngerlz?
Can you say, "Proctological Violation is *inherent* in our "democratic
system" ", boyzngerlz?
Biological fact: The rich are much better hung than the poor.
Why?
Simple Darwinism, foo's, Natural Selection.

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Mr. P.V.'d
formerly Droll Troll
"F. George McDuffee" wrote in message
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IIRC The US is the only one where the mineral rights are
private. About anyplace else, the people as a whole (IE the
government) own all the rights.
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It was only on re-reading this observation that I made the
connections between it, the historical "Clearances of the
Scottish Highlands" [see
http://www.scotlandspast.org/highland.cfm ,
http://www.theclearances.org/ ,
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/clearances.htm and about
57,000 more], a book called the "Tragedy of the Commons" by
Garrett Hardin [see:
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/T...heCommons.html ],
and an economic term called "vent for value."

"Vent for value" is easily described: "if there is anything of
value, someone will be there to take it for their own profit."
This is particularly true of "large" assets such as pasture,
timberland and mineral resources, which may have long established
but loosely defined communally ownership. Under the golden rule
["When you have the gold you make the rules"], it is easy in this
situation for a single individual or organization to allege and
enforce "ownership," and thus obtain the "vented value" for their
own use. Frequently this results in the depletion/destruction of
the asset, generally at great economic/social loss/hardship for
everyone else.

A European example was the conversion of the communally owned
clan lands of the Scottish Highlands, historically and
traditionally only administered and allocated according to long
established custom by the clan chieftain, to the personal
ownership of the clan chieftain, now self-styled as "the Laird of
the clan" to be used/disposed as he saw fit for his personal
gain. It was soon discovered that sheep raising on an industrial
scale was far more profitable to the "Laird" than the meager
rents paid by the now tenants/sharecroppers, practicing their
traditional subsistence agriculture. It was nothing personal,
just business, but all the clan members above those necessary to
herd sheep had to go, so these were deported to America,
Australia, or starved to death to make room for the sheep. The
only thing exceptional about this was it was necessary to get rid
of the people.

"Tragedy of the Commons" details how the obstinacy of the greedy
and shortsighted few in maximizing their immediate return, and
their refusal to invest in maintenance/upkeep, causes the
depletion/collapse of communal/common resources with horrific
losses for ever one else.

This seems to be a recap of the existing petroleum situation in a
"nutshell."