Tuesday 21 February 2012

Oily spam

An interesting article on North Sea oil in the Economist this week, although they did not consider the fairly hefty elephant in the room, i.e. the prospect of Scottish independence. The final paragraph in particular is worth repeating, neatly encapsulating why Scotland, contrary to the bizarre Unionist mantra, should not be cursing the gods for lumbering us with a "volatile, diminishing resource"...

[The UK] relies on its offshore reserves for 55% of its energy. Oil and gas account for 2.4% of GDP (finance is 10%, manufacturing 11%). In 2010 it invested more than any other industrial sector and paid a fifth of Britain’s corporation taxes. Meanwhile a thriving supply chain of British technical firms export their services around the world—a business that should continue long after the last drop of oil dribbles ashore.

But enough of oil. There seems to be a lot of spam appearing in blog comments at the moment. It might be time to move comments over to Disqus, as they apparently offer much better options for dealing with spam...(non-spam) comments are welcome on this subject.

4 comments:

cynicalHighlander said...

Disqus causes log in problems for some contributors from what I have heard.

It's about time we got hold of all our natural resources for the benefit of Scots not London's Westminster.

forfar-loon said...

What kind of log in problems cH? I've never had any trouble logging in to Disqus myself, but I don't use it all that often (mainly at Cobblers with Cochrane for a bit of light comedy).

David said...

Loon, utterly confusing - sometimes Blogger widget comes up, but mostly not.

subrosa said...

Isn't Blogger trapping your spam FL? I see you've one here. Blogger spam works quite well with me and I know Leggy had problems with Disqus.