Bob, are you saying I am wrong?

Can you think of a better way for the oil companies to sabotage the Kyoto
agreement on "greenhouse" gas emissions, than to force governments to lower
taxes and then blame it on consumers?

I thought you liked conspiracy theories?

Richard Edwards


>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: Re: samizdat
>Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 22:04:09 -0400
>
>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?)

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