What I refered to was stories like this joke:
The joke was Exxon's man could offer an official a nice pen. Elf could offer a Mercedes.
And the implication that Exxon does its business fair, it is the others that are dirty. That reminded me of similar stories of how swedish companies are honest and thus fooled by their crocked foreign competitors.
So what I am disputing is if indeed Exxon did not offer more then a pen. A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
US companies are not virgins in the forest. No argument there.
A bribery scandal (by way of agents) was recently uncovered by a swedish documentary. JAS Gripen was sold and leased (two seperate deals) to the Czech republic and some pretty serious money changed hands to make it so. A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
I was rather shocked that anyone was surpried we do it too. If we didn't, we wouldn't get any planes sold. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
