richard,
    o'course, "the view over here" yer parroting
is also the gov't line, no?

bob



----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Edwards <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: samizdat


> Bob, I didn't know you were such a supporter of big business. The view
here
> is that the oil companies colluded with the protesters. If taxes on fuel
> come down, demand will rise and so will the net price. Since the protests
at
> the refinery gates were on the whole peaceful and non-obstructive - not
> really a blockade at all - the oil companies could have continued to
deliver
> fuel if they had wanted to. Instead, the theory is that they decided it
was
> in their better interests to sit by whilst schools closed, hospitals
> cancelled operations, and nearly everyone suffered interference to varying
> degrees in their ordinary family lives, work and leisure.
>
> Richard Edwards (boojwa kitch culture swindler?)