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?) >From: bob scheetz <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine > <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: samizdat >Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 23:27:54 -0400 > >in the spirit of pound we oughtn't omit to register >our solidarity with the current action by our brit prole bro's >striking a blow in despite of their official yellow dog union >and judas laborite leadership >bringing an unaccostomed sweat to the brow of the the better sort. > >so, in solidarity, >we congratulate the effort thus far, >and encourage you, perhaps, >not to let the bounderby's off yet >...nor especially all their immense parasite constellation - >managers, jobbers, usurers, hucksters >...and kitch culture swindlers (the brit intelligentsia), >their goons and pimps and toadies and cocksucker politicians >...make'm howl! _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.