How benefit no-one? If that oil line were in place, wouldn't it produce a large amount of wealth in the area just through the service contracts? Wouldn't the oil itself produce value to those who used it in the area? Port industries mean jobs -- long term ones. And who is being paid for the oil rights? If the country who sits on the oil becomes wealthy, doesn't it follow that there will be lots of wealth circulating through the region?

UNOCAL has said they won't build it because they rely on and need a stable government in the area. Sure, they're being self interested. But isn't that agenda to the interest of the entire region, all its occupants, and its children?

Let's not be blind to the benefits of capitalist enterprise, as well as to its negative traits.

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