It is the duty of our government to provide the cheapest energy to the country. Russian oil is available with a 20% to 30% discount to world prices. Russian oil could lower everyone’s energy bills. Our government was elected to look after the Bahamian people, not the Ukrainian people, so let’s get that cheap oil and end the useless bickering.

Ahh, blood oil. My favorite kind of oil.

Do you know that the biggest importer of Russian energy today is Europe?

And when the US invaded Iraq, I don't remember us taking any sanctions on the USA.

And oil from Saudi Arabia is even more bloody. If you don't believe me go ask in Yemen or the Kashogy family...

Wrong. China, Pakistan and India

China for oil only, Europe imports most of it's natural gas from Russia.

But the point is that almost everyone is still importing Russian energy, so why not the Bahamas, if this can lower the cost of electricity, grocery and gas bills?

The cost of getting it here is probably prohibitive. No pipelines, so it would have to be transported by ship, and that's an awful long way. The price of Russian oil is also at an all time high, and the State is just raking in the Rubles.

Also, not all of Europe is reliant on Russian gas. Only a few countries primarily import Russian gas, with Germany being the most prominent.

The cheapest diamonds are those dug out by small children in tiny little holes that collapse all the time with a grown man with an AK47 making sure he don't come out until he get's something. Maybe government should mandate that our jewelers only import these precious metals so that they are cheaper for us?

Can't compare, diamonds don't power your house or increase transport costs.

And no children are involved in the extraction of oil in Russia.

No just political dissidents held against their will. Regardless, suggesting we buy oil from Russia now is just pathetic.

Errr political dissidents are cut to pieces or beheaded in Saudi Arabia (which you will agree is a lot worse) and that has not stopped anyone from importing their oil.

By the way Ukraine is also holding political dissidents against their will, so what should we do about that?

Your point is well taken. Both countries are horrible when it comes to human rights. Just horrible. We should not buy oil from either one, but right now Russia is actively killing thousands and thousands of Ukrainians in their sovereign country. I know there is no scale for energy producers related to how horrible one particular country is in comparison to another. I do know that my gut reaction is that we should support the rest of the European Countries and U.S. and treat Russia like the pariah Putin and his sycophants are and not buy energy from them. One man's opinion.

We could never buy Russian oil because the Bahamas is not an independent nation. We will jump as high as the State Department tells us to because we have no other choice in the matter.

Regarding Saudi oil, you are 100% right but don't expect the average Bahamian to be able to point out where Saudi Arabia is on a map much less understand a complex situation like Yemen. TV pundits and the Facebook algorithm don't push it because there is no political convenience in doing so, so most people have no idea what is even going on in that region. Society is formed around the lowest common denominator.

Excellent! The people do not know this, and they seem not interested. They think their government is free to act as they feel they should. You do your best to tell them otherwise, but they do not want that, they want only what their government tell them, emptiness or lies.

I agree with everything you said. In your first sentence. After that you are so morally bankrupt in your opinion.

I was referring to the first post at the top of the blog

Perhaps a worse realization to consider is if Oban had not become politicized we would have have the largest Bulk Oil Storage Facility in the Caribbean, which could have been filled with Oil below $15+/- a Barrel in 2020, as opposed to current $120+/- … and still increasing🤯

The FNM should have practiced what they are now preaching. In 2020 oil futures were negative. Why did the FNM not load up on FREE oil back then? Sick and tired of these clowns playing us all for fools.

Because those futures were very short lived and for a specific delivery date. We don't have enough storage capacity to take advantage of that once in a lifetime opportunity.

You are absolutely right. However, I am curious if the government took advantage to buy what it could use at that time. My guess is no.

fester: [1913 Webster]
2. To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in
intensity; to rankle.

The Nightmare on Tucker Road is only beginning to fester.

Here is a better question : why is the power still shutting off in 2022?

It amazes me how all of these politicians start asking questions the minute they get out of office while doing absolutely nothing to fix the problems while in. My power has been shutting off under the PLP and FNM, it really hasn't made a difference which group of buffoons were in power, yet we still see so many waving red and yellow flags at election time as if either party is actually doing something to fix the problems that we face.

We are in the 21st century, please do better. I really don't expect it though.

Cruel Davis and his buddy the very greedy Snake have ordained that the Bahamian people shall be made to sweat day and night in the sweltering heat of Summer if they refuse pay a hell of a lot more for electricity in order to keep Snake laughing all the way to the bank with his exorbitant BPL fuel supply profits and lucrative intermediary arrangements for BPL's rental of many large Aggreko generators to boost power generating capacity. Yes indeed, the very greedy Snake is now calling all the shots at BPL with cruel Davis at his side.

Meanwhile, the foreign visitors this Summer will sleep comfortably with all the air conditioning they need thanks to the very generous electricity concessions given by our elected officials to the foreign owned hotel properties and their foreign operators.

I have lived in Abaco since 1992, never had a power bill, never lost power (including during and after Floyd and Dorian). Go solar, you won’t have to worry about what BPL is up to.