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All of the oil will still be drilled, sold and burned, so what exactly can the protests achieve?

You're missing the point. If the protesters want us to use more green energy, it's still not going to stop the oil rich countries drilling every last bit of it for profit. Even if the UK stopped oil completely, all of the oil would still be used somewhere.

I'm not sure what you mean - are you saying the protest is all about encouraging us to find a cheap and clean alternative source of energy? Maybe you misunderstood me, I was talking about a huge technological advance, like cold fusion, which would make the energy we get from oil worthless. Not...

You should be ashamed of yourself. :whistle:

Only affected women? I've had to put up with this shit government you lot keep voting for!

With current technology (for alternatives) it's simply not possible. Middle-eastern countries have vast wealth and power because of their oil, there's nothing we can do to stop them using every last drop, as long as it's making them a profit. Of course if a cheap and clean alternative source of...

Sure, but I don't think it's generally believed that women got the vote because Emily died

Is what based upon what? The idea that several things contributed to women getting the vote? As TB said, women's involvement in the war effort highlighted that they should be treated equally. The US progressing would also have influenced the UK - it's not a good look when you're stuck in the...

Indeed there were a lot of events that impacted it. I'm not sure Emily dying did anything to make it happen sooner.

So is there any feasible way this protest could lead to the world ending the use of oil? Are the middle east closing the fields as we speak? I hope he's locked up.

She died before WW1, and women got the vote in 1928. I imagine they'd have got the vote without her death. Women won the right in the US in 1919, but they didn't die in front of horses. Maybe her death delayed women getting the vote.