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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 15 July | 142 comments (142 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

I'm not sure the guys in charge of our EU-policy knows what an hedge fund is, and if they do they either

1) don't care about them

2) ready to compromise with everything, everyone and his grandmother so as not to make a fuss.

Don't take this as some kind of independent political stance.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Wed Jul 15th, 2009 at 07:51:53 AM EST
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This was the finance minister speaking, not some low-level EU bureaucrat.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Wed Jul 15th, 2009 at 08:10:23 AM EST
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Re: Economy and Finance (none / 0)

Ah well, then no.2 seems the more likely.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Wed Jul 15th, 2009 at 08:23:57 AM EST
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