I can see why the folks in Turkemenistan and Afghanistan would be angry, DougR, that pipeline would bring a lot of jobs in money into their economically depressed region--No wonder Max Tone is chilled to the bone!! (sorry about that one, Max) All sarcasm aside, social unrest and instability thrive in unstable economies--people who need social unrest and instability to achieve their own objectives hate anything that builds the economy up--