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the French should pay up for the benefits of Anglo Saxon capitalism, even if they won't practice it themselves.

For sure, the total decrepitude of the British energy industry is one of the great benefits of the Anglo-Saxon model!

By the way, we have already been (and still are) paying dearly to enrich the few ones who benefitted from the Anglo-Saxon capitalism..

"Dieu se rit des hommes qui se plaignent des conséquences alors qu'ils en chérissent les causes" Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

by Melanchthon on Sun Aug 3rd, 2008 at 08:27:11 AM EST
Rich!

By they way...

Now that EDF has been privatised (thanks to the French partly caving in to the dominant ideology), it is indeed its shareholders that benefit; thankfully that still mostly means the French government.

And a certain shareholder named monsieur Guillet... ;)


Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Sun Aug 3rd, 2008 at 11:30:16 AM EST
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