Greenpeace Fools or Friends

Recently in London oil trading was disrupted by a group of greenpeace activists. The group burst into the International Petroleum Exchange with around 35 demostrators. They were successful in suspending trade of the worlds second largest oil energy futures market for nearly an hour. Can greenpeace really expect to disrupt the energy futures market enough to have a positive influence on the environment? In my opinion their efforts were futile at best. All they did was create a distraction for a few minutes that suspended the trading process for about an hour before everything returned to normal. I think greenpeace needs to rethink their strategy about how they plan to persuade the world to become less oil dependent. Did the suspension of trade for about an hour have an economic impact on the world economy? That is the question. I think it could have. There are many people all over the world trading with those people at the International Petroleum Exchange. If they could not get what IPE was offering because trading was suspended those folks business went elsewhere. The marginal costs of such a trade blip frankly in my opinion seem immeasurable. The next time greenpeace decides to have a demonstration maybe they should think twice about what it will do to them economically. After all even greenpeace demonstrators have to get around with some form of carbon dioxide emitting transportation.