So, if I put a pipeline from the water tanks over all the houses in my city to steal their water, will that make their water mine?
By the way, the price of gas sent to Israel is less than the cost of its exploration, regardless the transportation costs which you are talking about.
The pipeline that exploded today was the one supplying Israel and jordan, not Jordan alone, but the Egyptian regime and Israel want to make guys who made that operation get frustrated by saying it is just for supplying Jordan.
First of all, in terms of the prices that EMG sells the gas to israel for, Its a much more complicated issue and you over simplify it. It involves taxation thresholds, long term sale guarntees, obvious political intrests and of course, my personal favorite, money to offshore accounts.
The pipeline itself was not supplying israel, i'm actualy informed on this matter as it involves my job somewhat, so you can trust me if you want to, I promise you i'm not trying to discourging anyone here from blowing another pipe :hellyes:
For the rest, stealing? really? The company is private, its a bussiness and its a world of global enconomy. They (EMG) put the pipeline, they paid the goverment for the rights to use and sell the gas, and they run it. Thats the buttom line.
Did the pepole of Egypt payed for its exploration? no they didnt.
Did they laid the pipes ? again no.
Do they deserve seeing benifits from it? yes they do, its on their land.
Is it EMG responsibility? no it isn't.
So, going back to your analogy. you talk about stealing, and stealing does make the water yours, but dosen't make it right, neturaly we all agree that its ethicly and moraly wrong to steal.
However, what you can do (and maybe should if you can, its your choise), is to buy the water source from your city and sell the water to whoever you want.
Is it legitimit? yes it is .
Is it moral? probably not, but thats another worthy debate about moral enconomy and modern capitalisim for another thread.
Do the pepole of Egypt get what they deserve from the goverment profit from the gas? again, probably not.
But they dont see much personal gain from any other profit the goverment makes for that matter.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this is exactly the reason for everything that goes on right now in Egypt ?
I hope they get what they are fighting for and that their financial situation will improve, but it depends only on their goverment, or soon, the new goverment.
Quite frankly, I find the akward attempts, by some,and namely you Rebel, to spin this situation and make it about Israel, comical at best and absurd at worst.