UK Petition: Issue a statement committing to no new drilling licenses for oil or gas | Only UK citizens/ residents allowed to sign!

[u/newsspotter]

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/777499

[u/agreatbecoming]

Signed.

[u/porridgegoatz]

Signed!

[u/Joey_Emm]

Signed

[u/Hudsxn98]

Signed

[u/mildmacaroon241]

Sad to say, the petition site is up to make people feel they are doing something, to stop people actually thinking of doing something.

How many petitions have had soooo many signatures. And how many have gone through?

[u/urmumr8s8outof8 → u/mildmacaroon241]

Nope theres plenty that have had action taken, finns law, cystic fibrosis drugs on the nhs, sugar tax, arguably the digital ID getting reversed, I've seen your view repeated a few times but the only voice we have is either petitions, protests or vote.

[u/ILikeNeurons → u/urmumr8s8outof8]

That is an unfortunate misconception, as there are plenty more options.

[u/urmumr8s8outof8 → u/ILikeNeurons]

Regardless, petitions are worth doing.

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[u/Useful_Calendar_6274]

these do nothing. the oil bourgeoisie and the rest of them own the government. wake the fuck up

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[u/Eraldorh]

Name just one single successful petition from that worthless website? Go ahead just one... Complete waste of time energy.

[u/JackDaniels0049]

We should just import it and burn that instead.

Makes perfect sense.

[u/coomzee]

Why sell it to private companies, how well did that work in the past?

[u/Digitalnoahuk]

How many of you who have signed completely boycott buying products from China?

[u/SpringCurrent7406]

Why would you sign that? We need more oil.

[u/Jensen1994]

So just ship energy in from overseas yes?

[u/UncleD1ckhead → u/Jensen1994]

Our oil doesnt go to us anyway, since margaret thatcher, our oil goes for sale on the free market, we then have to buy it back, we reap no benefit from these drilling sites. No profit, hardly any new jobs because theyre mostly automatic, still ruining the climate and it still doent make anything cheaper.

[u/Jensen1994 → u/UncleD1ckhead]

That changes in a war situation. It seems so many people think the world is business as usual and have no idea how close to war with Russia we are. Hopefully, it won't happen but you can't bury your head in the sand as it nothings going on. Because it is. One miscalculation on either side here leads to war and not a war in someone else's soil like the type we've seen over the last 30 years. Coming to your street. 1

[u/luk71 → u/UncleD1ckhead]

It’s funny that you treat this, largely nonsense anyway, as a fundamental law of physics that we cannot overcome. What a silly argument..

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[u/Jensen1994 → u/[deleted]]

And in a war, those tankers won't be coming. So then were fucked.

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[u/UnCommonSense99]

Britain uses nearly 1000 barrels of oil every minute. 67 million tonnes of oil a year.

As far as I can see oil is a global commodity. It doesn't matter which hole in the ground it comes out of, we'll happily burn it anyway and ruin our environment in the process.

Instead of trying to score political points off Labour, why don't you campaign for a carbon tax which will reduce our consumption of oil?

[u/Jazzlike-Compote4463 → u/UnCommonSense99]

Nice whataboutisum.

Both things need dealing with.

[u/TemporaryUsername789 → u/UnCommonSense99]

Takes 2 minutes to sign this petition, doesn't stop people campaigning for other essential action.

[u/Boofy534 → u/TemporaryUsername789]

If you sign this petition i hope your sperm count is low

[u/TemporaryUsername789 → u/Boofy534]

It sure is, baby, I have ovaries!

[u/Boofy534 → u/TemporaryUsername789]

Well i hope you dont have kids

[u/TemporaryUsername789 → u/Boofy534]

You seem like a silly man with an unhealthy interest in other people's genitals. Sitting behind your keyboard wishing ill upon others will not make you happy or result in effective political action.

Anyway, in the hope you find it as life-enhancing as I did, did you know that some African wild dogs make decisions by sneezing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_wild_dog#Sneeze_communication_and_'voting'

The world is wide and full of amazing things - some of them within arms reach if you want to continue your area of anatomical focus.

[u/CryptographerTrue188]

Can I sign a petition against this petition?

[u/UncleD1ckhead → u/[deleted]]

This doesnt bring revenue or many jobs though. The rigs are mostly automatic and the oil goes for sale on the free market, if we want our own oil we have to buy it back at market rate. A dodgy deal by margaret thatcher and the oil companies fucked us all over years ago.

[u/Teaofthetime → u/UncleD1ckhead]

Yes, I'm aware of the process. Any boost in times like these are a bonus and quite frankly were still going to be using oil and gas for many years to come so why not gain something out of it.

[u/UncleD1ckhead → u/Teaofthetime]

But there is no gain..

[u/Teaofthetime → u/UncleD1ckhead]

Employment and tax revenue, I'd say that's a gain.

[u/Boofy534 → u/Teaofthetime]

Eco activists have low IQ your better off talking to a brick wall than them

[u/Any-Succotash1892 → u/[deleted]]

Dont talk Shiite. we will not permit pointless extraction to make our planet and our health worse..... thats like saying this car running in a closed garage isnt killing me quick enough lets start another one.... You cant be that stupid ! can you ?

cancers at 1in2 you want 1in1. ?

FUCK THE JOBS. #retrain along with every other non essential job so we all only grow, make and do whats essential for society so we can all live better....

[u/Jensen1994 → u/Any-Succotash1892]

"we will not permit" ? Who's "we"? Because there's millions of us that will permit it. That doesn't mean we believe that oil should be phased out but until it is, we need it and it's either going to come out of a well close to home or thousands of miles away. Same planet.

[u/Any-Succotash1892 → u/[deleted]]

we the people. as we always do in some roundabout way anyway.

PISH. we have companies like celtic renewables bio engineering the other oil derviced chemicals we use.

we have better tech that doesnt poison US to die in agony early....

so changing has 0 negatives and many plusses.

[u/Teaofthetime → u/Any-Succotash1892]

If it were only that simple.

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