White House Holds One-Year ‘Celebration’ of Energy Bill With Industry Reps
White House Holds One-Year ‘Celebration’ of Energy Bill With Industry Reps
One year ago today, Congress finalized the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which lavished $14.5 billion in tax breaks on energy firms, nearly 60 percent of which went to “oil, natural gas, coal, electric utilities and nuclear power.”
One year ago, the average national gas price was $2.14. Today, it’s $3.00. The country is no closer to ending its addiction to oil, and fuel economy standards are still stuck at 27.5 miles per gallon (where they’ve been for 20 years). Meanwhile, “five of the world’s largest energy companies are expected to report combined second-quarter profits next week of more than $30 billion.”
For most Americans, this is no reason to celebrate. But most Americans aren’t “Representatives of industries who are benefiting from tax incentives available through the Energy Policy Act of 2005.” Those industry reps are holding a “celebration” of the bill on Capitol Hill today with Energy Secretary Bodman, according to a press release obtained by ThinkProgress:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Advisory
Secretary of Energy to Observe One-Year Anniversary of the Energy Policy Act of 2005
WASHINGTON, DC – On Wednesday, July 26, 2006, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Samuel W. Bodman will join Senator Pete Domenici and Congressman Joe Barton to deliver remarks at an “EPAct at One†celebration. Secretary Bodman and Chairmen Domenici and Hobson are expected to discuss the importance of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, America’s first comprehensive energy legislation in over a decade. They will also highlight progress towards implementing the Act intended to increase the United States energy security and reduce its dependence on sources of energy from unstable regions of the world.
WHO: Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman
U.S. Senator Pete Domenici (NM)
U.S. Congressman Joe Barton (TX-6th)
Representatives of industries who are benefiting from tax incentives available through the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
Party on.
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July 26th, 2006 at 4:13 pmWe pay 3 dollars a gallon and the Oil companies make billions - great f**king policy. And a statement from the Secy of Energy trumpting the “great success” too. You would think a rapist would at least have the common sense not to crow about how wonderful the lovemaking was for his victim…
July 26th, 2006 at 4:16 pmKinda reminds you of the last scene in Animal Farm, doesn’t it?
Anyway, Mo Do weighs in with Iraq again in “The Immutable President.”
July 26th, 2006 at 4:16 pmAnd Bodman just went on record saying how wonderful things
July 26th, 2006 at 4:22 pmare in Iraq.
Rumsfeld doesn’t know what’s going on in Iraq.
California inroduces FIRST ANTI-WARMING BILL IN NATION:
AB 32: The Global Warming Solutions Act
http://www.ucsusa.org/ assets/ documents/ global_warming/ AB-32-fact-sheet.pdf
http://www.ecovote.org/warming/
The biill has been passed out of the Assembly, and is before the California Senate.
July 26th, 2006 at 4:22 pm[…] Link to the Think Progress post entitled: White House Holds One-Year ‘Celebration’ of Energy Bill With Industry Reps. I bet George and the boys are high-fiving all over their billions. […]
July 26th, 2006 at 4:23 pmThis is the same dipshit who said, “The situation seems far more stable than when I was here two or three years ago,” he said in an interview in the fortified Green Zone. “The security seems better, people are more relaxed. There is an optimism, at least among the people I talked to.” This guy lives in La-la land. He must have gotten into Rush’s stash.
July 26th, 2006 at 4:23 pmI saw prices today within the sam egeographic/socio-economic area between $2.85 and $3.05. Why such a swing? Taxes, etc. were the same, and overhead would have been relatively constant.
July 26th, 2006 at 4:26 pmWhats on the menu at the celebration ?
Endangered species stew
July 26th, 2006 at 4:26 pmTar balls
Blackened Waterfowl
Iraqi innocent on a spit
GI IED Hamburger
2-Headed Froglegs
Working class blood and sweat gaspacho
Slick Soup
Hooray! I would love to attend, but it is kinda far and gas prices being what they are…
July 26th, 2006 at 4:29 pmOh, that sounds like a feast made for a neo-con! Top it off with Katrina bodies for dessert, all served at the Nochildleft buffet.
July 26th, 2006 at 4:32 pmMmmm…mmm..mmm. Sounds good. I hope they have some Crude pie ala Valdez for dessert.
July 26th, 2006 at 4:33 pmIf I was in on that action, I would be partyin’ too! But seriously, it must be hard to be in the energy business, the world demanding your products, people fighting over your products, people clammering to pay the highest price. Also, having the world by the shorthairs can be tiring, having to hang on like that.
July 26th, 2006 at 4:35 pmNot unlike congress giving themselves a raise while they refuse to raise the minimum wage.
July 26th, 2006 at 4:47 pmThat’s the republican way — Have a party and celebrate our wonderful selves.
I hear too much whining. This is supply and demand. If we use less gas, the prices will drop because the suppliers want to sell more of it to us. Plain and simple.
July 26th, 2006 at 4:57 pmZeb-
Would you like that I stop going to work? Unforunately our society is built upon driving from our homes 20 miles away from our offices and 5 miles away from the grocery store.
This has absolutely nothing to do with supply and demand. Of course big oil wants us to think it’s because of the Middle East turmoil and Katrina. Bullshit. It’s big-money buying politicians and stifling conservation policies. Plain and simple.
July 26th, 2006 at 5:02 pm#16
Is that the same kind of whining that the Americans in Lebanon were doing? Or a different kind?
I think you miss the point. If it was just supply and demand then the situation would be different. From the data and from observations the oil companies are not following ethical business practices and they are getting tax cut and cutbacks from our government just to increase their profits. It is not plain and it is not simple.
July 26th, 2006 at 5:03 pmZeb,
July 26th, 2006 at 5:03 pmBlogs are a lot like a**holes, everybody’s got one…
Stupid, stupid republicans. They allowed themselves to get scared into voting for Bush because of gay marriage, and at the same time voted in an administration that doesn’t give a shit about them.
Way to go you idiotic neocons!
July 26th, 2006 at 5:03 pmAnon1,
July 26th, 2006 at 5:06 pmTrue that. My dear old mom feels very betrayed by her loyalty to the Thug party. Her only stupid fear is that “the Dems’ll raise my taxes.”
Well, news flash, taxes are going to go up, no matter who the next Commander in Chimp is…
Thanks, Boy George!
But! If we give them tax cuts, the cost will come down! HONEST!
July 26th, 2006 at 5:12 pm“Never under-estimate the power of AUDACITY.” (Arthur Miller) Where is a good old-fashioned revolution when you need one? Or have all the best ones been used up already?
July 26th, 2006 at 5:13 pmOH yeah, and tax cuts for the people? Here’s your $300. Oh, and your fuel costs next year will go up by $1000. Thanks for voting!
July 26th, 2006 at 5:14 pmMe? I tape flyers on pumps when I gas up protesting cash giveaways to big oil.
Try it!
Why don’t Palestinians just move somewhere where they are wanted? -Ed Schultz
July 26th, 2006 at 5:15 pmWe need another Progressive Era…if only we had a Teddy Roosevelt without the imperialist side…
July 26th, 2006 at 5:18 pmGo Russ Feingold!
TIA: That tagline is one of the reason I refuse to listen to Ed Schultz anymore. Why not use the exact same argument of Israel? Move somewhere they aren’t hated.
July 26th, 2006 at 5:24 pmAnyone else see that CBS News piece about how OPEC made deals with non-OPEC nations to control prices? Price fixing. From OPEC. I know, startling, but it’s not “supply and demand”, because gas in in plenty of supply with a fake demand put on it.
July 26th, 2006 at 5:29 pm#28, semen,
Don’t tell me that you are shocked to finally learn that OPEC is a cartel? They set prices by controlling supply among the world’s oil producers - where have you been? Crude oil is refined into gasoline in the US, and gasoline prices at the pump are a function of the price of oil, the local / state taxes and the additives required by state law (additives create a micro-market with supply/demand pressures as well).
July 26th, 2006 at 5:39 pmJesus was a Capitalist
July 26th, 2006 at 5:39 pm#10, you forgot the grilled breast of chickenhawk with the stem cell caviar…
July 26th, 2006 at 5:41 pm“will also highlight progress towards implementing the Act intended to increase the United States energy security and reduce its dependence on sources of energy from unstable regions of the world”
Reduce dependence on sources of energy from unstable regions. Hmmm. That’s a great idea. And at the same time today, this news article comes out (from Reuters):
WASHINGTON, July 26 (Reuters) - Iraq could sign joint ventures with international oil companies even before the nation’s parliament enacts a long-awaited hydrocarbon law, Iraq’s oil minister said on Wednesday.
Iraq’s oil minister, Hussain al-Shahristani, met with representatives from international oil companies, including Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM.N: Quote, Profile, Research), BP Plc (BP.L: Quote, Profile, Research), Shell Oil Co. (RDSa.L: Quote, Profile, Research) and Chevron Corp. (CVX.N: Quote, Profile, Research), according to a list provided by the U.S. Energy Department.
The meetings at the department’s headquarters were also attended by U.S. Energy Secretary Sam Bodman.
Can anyone explain how that fits with the policy?
July 26th, 2006 at 5:52 pmAt least Jason Handlover is admitting he agrees that price fixing is going on.
July 26th, 2006 at 6:02 pmJesus was the very first member of OPEC.
July 26th, 2006 at 6:03 pm#25, You just posted a good idea!
July 26th, 2006 at 6:17 pm“The greatest threat to our national security is our dependence on foreign oil. The primary goal of this policy is to achieve energy independence in the United States.” Any energy policy that does not begin with these two sentences is anti-American, dangerous, and short-sighted.
July 26th, 2006 at 7:24 pmThe primary goal of this policy is to achieve energy independence in the United States.
Does this mean all of our oil and gas needs to be from domestic sources?
We could probably easily do this if we drill off the continental shelf and in ANWR, but I assume this isn’t what you were directly advocating.
July 26th, 2006 at 7:34 pm#39 - But until then, what do we do?
July 26th, 2006 at 7:49 pmThe Oil Racket and Greater Israel. at the cost of American Lives, Money & Deception.
http://nowarforisrael.com/Greater%20Israel.htm
July 26th, 2006 at 8:12 pmgouge the public, gorge the oil execs
July 26th, 2006 at 8:18 pmOh boy, let’s celebrate the one year anniversary of welfare for the super, super, super rich.
Hip, hip hooray!!!!!!!!
July 26th, 2006 at 9:41 pmHip, hip hooray!!!!!!!!
Hip, hip hooray!!!!!!!!
I remember Enron saying that it was crazy CA just before the bottom fell out…come to find out they were a bunch of crooks…I think I don’t trust these sorry bastards in this administration or that industry…BP announced a thirty percent increase in profits recently…how much has the price of gas gone up in that same year? Cons would lie about their mothers to protect the drunken AWOL coward they have as a hand puppet…these are crooked bastards…Nixon would turn over in his grave.
July 26th, 2006 at 10:28 pm[…] White House Holds One-Year Celebration of Energy Bill With …Think Progress, DC - 11 hours agoOne year ago today, Congress finalized the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which lavished $14.5 billion in tax breaks on energy firms, nearly 60 percent of which … […]
July 27th, 2006 at 3:26 amNothing to celebrate, but heck they are all pigs, so party on you greedy swine > lol.
July 27th, 2006 at 4:48 amLet me guess… we taxpayers footed the bill for this ’soiree’? Talk about ‘adding insult to injury’. And that they have no conception, or perhaps just don’t care, how incredibly WRONG this is, should not surprise me. But, DAMN!! I can’t recall ever hearing about anything like this before. Well, as BushCo showed us, what was done can be undone, as well. Bummer about ‘hangovers’, when you are older. They take ALOT longer to recover from, and it isn’t pretty. But that’s what happens when yopu don’t know when to quit.
July 27th, 2006 at 6:21 amThe TRUTH behind the Hezbollah incident that Israel used as a pretext to invade another country
Check out the maps and explanations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqR1qcWtnpg
July 27th, 2006 at 6:22 am*-you
July 27th, 2006 at 6:23 amLooks like I raised a little stink yesterday. Allow me to make things clearer for those of you who lack the ability to think independently. First off, don’t blame US refineries. Oil companies here make about 9 cents on the dollar. Gasoline is taxed at about 50 cents on the dollar, depending on what state you live in. Chew on that a little.
Crude prices are up. Know why? Because we’re willing to pay for gas at $3 a gallon. I’m not saying don’t drive to work, I’m saying that if people are willing to fill up an H2 that gets 6mpg and drive it 40 miles a day, prices are going to continue to rise. If the cars we drove suddenlty averaged even 20mpg instead of more like 12, there would be an exess in supply of crude, inticing suppliers to drop the cost in order to get us to consume more. That’s basic economics folks.
Throwing blame around is nothing more than a display of ignorance.
July 27th, 2006 at 7:58 am“Gasoline is taxed at about 50 cents on the dollar”
July 27th, 2006 at 8:12 amI assume you mean “gallon”, not “dollar”. How much of that tax was then given to the oil companies in government subsidies/welfare? The problem, to me, is not the price of gas but the record high profits of the oil companies and this corporate welfare.
Iran wants to thank the U.S. Government and Americans for driving up the price of crude oil and giving them even more money to statrt a nuclear arsenal
July 27th, 2006 at 8:14 am#51, I stand corrected. 50 cents on the gallon indeed. 9 cents on the gallon for the oil companies, too. (Which only further supports my argument). I sometimes go into a bit of a typing rage when I become frustrated with the state of these issues.
However, look at the profit margins of the refineries. They’re considerably less than most other big corporations. They’re not the only big business to get tax cuts, either. The reason refineries are under fire is because they’re the easiest target. If there is no profit in owning an oil refinery, then there would be no refineries. Why not do a little research and see what kind of profits companies like Microsoft and Wal-Mart are turning. Today’s society needs operating systems and underpants just as much as gasoline. You’ll see that they’re making one heck of a lot more per dollar than the oil companies. Why not target them?
July 27th, 2006 at 8:36 am“You’ll see that they’re making one heck of a lot more per dollar than the oil companies.”
since you have already seen those numbers and know exactly where they are is there any chance for a link?
July 27th, 2006 at 9:06 amI thought somebody would ask. Here and here are some nice writeups about profits compared to the amount of taxes paid by some big corporations within the last few years. Just in case you want to see numbers regarding just how much of a company’s revenues are actually profitable, you can check
July 27th, 2006 at 9:23 amhere.
Um, Jesus was an anarchist.
The price of gas is what it is for to reasons. 1.Artifical scarcity, 2. our economy which is totally screwed thanks to Clinton and Bush.
Democrats and republicans are all the same when it comes down to it; just a big WWF style show. Both democrats and republicans are both out for money and power, and there ones that actually serve the people, Cynthia Mckenny/Ron Paul, are shunned and demonized. Nobody wins in a 2 party system, it’s a system of control and democrats as well as republicans blindly play into it.
July 27th, 2006 at 10:25 amAnd now you know why Cheney put up such a fight when “We the people” wanted to
July 27th, 2006 at 11:58 amknow who was on the Energy Commission. Their enery policy is placing millions, or should I say Billions, of our hard earned money in the pockets of the capitolist pigs!!!
Zeb, your strawman about other industry does nothing to make an argument about the price of gasoline. The problems here being that they just received $14.5 BILLION in tax cuts. It’ll bring prices down, right? Nope, it’s sending CEO retirement packages through the roof. Was that worth a tax rebate? $14.5 BILLION taken from the American people, so we can subsidize retirements. How many new refineries have been built with that $14.5 BILLION? Oh! Look at ‘em all! Cheap gas for everyone!
July 27th, 2006 at 1:00 pmThe political strategy is not just the price of gas. It is the huge profits the oil corporations are ripping us off for the own greedy pockets, but that the GOP are supporting the rip off.
GOP support the oil corporations ripping US off for their profits. Screw the Amercians! Independents, Republicans, or Democrats, screw them for profit!
July 27th, 2006 at 2:11 pmStrawman? Looks like strait up facts to me. My point is that we should not be singling out big oil, but focusing on large corporations and their tax cuts as a whole. You want gas prices to go down, use less fuel. If you want to complain about tax welfare, it’s only fair to include all parties involved. I’m done here, I think we all know what they say about arguing on the internet.
July 27th, 2006 at 2:23 pmI think we are responsible for letting this happen. Can’t blame anyone else for your own decisions. Start consuming less, and producing more.
July 27th, 2006 at 3:25 pmThis country was built to use gas, lobbied way back when by the oil and auto companies. That’s why we dismantled our public transportation system, created the Interstate Highway Bill and suburbia. It, like most everything else, had NOTHING to do with the “free market”. The “free market” existed for about 40 years in the 19th century and nothing since is anything close to what they teach in economics classes. It is a tool used for rhetorical purposes. Why do we have computers? People like Jeb would say the “free market”, even though it was developed through the Pentagon, with OUR tax dollars, then turned over to corporations to be sold back to us…even though we paid for their creation. It’s the same with almost everything in our economy. Socialize costs (R&D, pollution, tax breaks and subsidies, etc) and privatize the benefits. THAT’S the “free market”.
Regarding oil, it is an oligopoly with a guaranteed fixed high demand. That is not capitalism Jeb, sorry to break it to you. The CEO of these companies have to work on certain qualative improvements but for the most part their profits are guaranteed. We should do as Venezuela has done, nationalize or expropriate the oil companies and use the revenues to fund renewable fuels research.
Jeb is not pro-capitalist, he pro-parasitic.
July 27th, 2006 at 3:38 pm[…] Obscene oil profits. What’s gasoline costing in your neighborhood? Iraq: Certainly not fought for oil. “There’s a lot less oil flowing now and a lot more blood flowing…” Should the oil companies pick up the war tab for a month as a thank you? Meanwhile, much of those profits are going to the Arab oil producers. The White House is celebrating the one-year anniversary of Cheney’s Energy Bill. Iraq produces 3 million barrels a day of oil but is capable of much more. Tax breaks in a time of war for something that’s a national security issue? WP article, ‘Waiting to Get Blown Up’: Some Troops in Baghdad Express Frustration With the War and Their Mission […]
July 27th, 2006 at 3:45 pmBy the way, could some of you environmentalists please tell me why: 1. Gas SHOULD be cheap. If it’s cheap it will be used more, making global warming worse. I understand that there are no alternatives for some, but that means that you should get to work starting a local group to push for alternative fuels and better public transportation. Voting for Democrats that aren’t just as determined to push for alternative fuels and public transportation, as quickly as possible, and just voting for those who will lower gas prices makes little sense in the long term. 2. Why you support economic growth. Is economic growth itself not as environmentally destructive as oil and CO2 emissions? I find it ironic that Henry Waxman, who I agree with in a decent amount of issues, says he wants to improve the environment (which he does in some cases like CO2 emissions) but then talks about how great economic growth is. It’s not ideologically consistent and I would argue that growth itself is just as bad as CO2 emissions.
July 27th, 2006 at 3:49 pmToo pretty, I assume you’re talking to me. The fact that You’ve misspelled my name wrong three times in one post has spurred me to add just one more comment. First off, if you put it that way, Microsoft is a monopoly and most of the media makes up an oligarchy as well. I already knew this. You’re missing my points completely.
#1 The fact stands that if we consume less fuel the prices will fall in order to create more profits for crude oil suppliers. That is basic economics.
#2 The media is lynching big oil over these tax breaks. Have you actually looked at how much they’re getting?
I agree that tax releif for big corporations is bull. What I’m trying to say here is that it’s nothing new and certainly not exclusive to oil refineries.
July 27th, 2006 at 4:05 pmHave a look.
July 27th, 2006 at 4:10 pmZED:
You say that if we consume less fuel prices will go down. Since the companies are oligopolies, that tend to work with one another much more than compete, IS NOT standard economic logic. They determine the prices we pay; it has nothing to do with demand. You COULD say that prices are going up because oil is a finite resource and is become scarcer as time goes by, but demand has nothing to do with it. (By the way, I appreciate your links on corporate welfare; this is by no means just about oil companies)
Regarding the media, you have no argument from me. I won’t bother articulating why, we seem to be on the same page there.
About Microsoft: I’m a proponent of the open source movement and the socialization of knowledge. Patents, monopolies and privatizing knowledge hinder real development and progress. I think grants should be awarded for innovation and discoveries, but the knowledge or invention should then be open for public use. If it were, people that don’t have access to knowledge currently could improve on the breakthroughs.
For reference I would have you look at the Cuban medical system. As a result of the socialization of knowledge, medical breakthroughs happen at rates three times faster than in countries that privatize the knowledge in the medical field.
July 27th, 2006 at 4:39 pmMy grammar was a little off in the last post but my points stand.
July 27th, 2006 at 4:42 pmAssuming that you actually use something that isn’t windows, we have at least one thing in common…
July 27th, 2006 at 4:46 pmI saw $3.72 in Los Angeles the other day. All of these profits must be expensive.
July 27th, 2006 at 5:32 pmZeb’s right - those poor, poor oilmen can hardly make it in this man’s world - we should all chip in and pay the bill (like we’re not already) for their fancy-pants sissy party. Those record profits we read about in the paper are a Liberal myth - by the time those poor, handsome, macho oilmen get done paying Hillary Clinton’s welafare bill, they’ve got nothing left over at all. It’s just like the movie “Giant”! and I’m wet in the panties thinking of all those powerful, rich, manly oil guys in their handsome suits at the big, big party. Gee, I wish I could be just like them.
“Mr. Barnum, meet Mr. Zeb; Mr. Zeb, Mr. Barnum - you two got have a heckuva time together”
What a rube!
July 27th, 2006 at 7:05 pmZeb totally misreads oil company history. And math. You start with the obscene, unjustifiable profits (American companies), and work your math backwards from there. Not capitalists– just blind, mindless thieves.
July 27th, 2006 at 11:28 pmInteresting comments. It is obscene that BIG OIL is making a ‘killing’ [pun intended] at the pump! These resources are finite, or at least require millions of years for new production… I would be willing to pay more at the pump if I also got free health care like some European consumers get! Ideally, it would be great to be able to conserve and not drive as much: ride bikes, walk or take public transportation.
I would be willing to pay more [if I was making more than my hourly of 9.00], if I knew the additional monies were being directed towards: R&D, renewable resources, and, certainly, towards fuel efficient cars and/or different fuel and energy sources; and, also towards the creation of a national fund from some of those excess profits - for a true nationwide mass transit system, including light rail or???
However, as it stands now in our country, with no regulations, no rules and no oversight - why should BIG OIL be bothered with research, or paying back in to the system, like individual Americans do every year with TAXES… “Taxes” the ugly 5- letter obscenity. No one likes having to pay taxes, myself included - however, every year when I get my 1040 booklet I am so NOT amused to see my portion of the Tax Pie is much larger than the corporate slice!
Of course, all of these ideas are dependent upon an Administration who truly believes “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain…”
When you have a vacuum instead of leadership, when there truly is NO moral compass to guide our country, you have what we now have…and it will only get worse before it gets better.
I do wonder when “We the people” will start revolting.
But it’s a relief to see that there are so many thoughtful people out “there”! Too bad they’re not running this country!
July 28th, 2006 at 5:23 amI love the comment about the nation resembling Animal FArm by George Orwell. It sure does. The pigs (Republicans) Napolean (lead pig-Bush) Squealer (propoganda spreader-Snow) and how the pigs use the animals, lie about the actual state of the farm and on and on and on-this book is a classic read!!! I highly recommend it!!! As far as what is going on with energy companies making windfall record profits-Bush, Cheney and Rummie all have their fingers in the pot!!! They are making tons of money and will all be on boards of these crooked companies when they’re done wrecking America-a revolution needs to happen to change things and it needs to happen on this soil. To begin with we need to take back Congress as Democrats and show we are tough by impeaching the monsters who are running this country!!!!!
July 28th, 2006 at 9:22 amIf anyone has time to read a really interesting book, please check out Herman Daly’s “Beyond Growth”. It will turn your economic logic on it’s head. Here’s a link (through amazon, just giving an amazon link because it has product descriptions and comments):
http://www.amazon.com/ gp/ product/ 0807047090/ sr=1-1/ qid=1154110798/ ref=pd_bbs_1/ 104-5215943-2287124?ie=UTF8&s=books
Regarding Animal Farm, the thing that I thought was interesting is when the leaders of the common man get in power and start to resemble the people that former enslaved them. It’s a great analogy not only for the R’s but the D’s. Give concentrated power to either, or any group, and the leaders of “the common man” start to resemble the exploiters over time.
Oh, another great book to check out, if anyone is interested is, is Daniel Guerin’s “Anarchism: From Theory to Practice”. Another book to help you think outside the box:
http://www.amazon.com/ gp/ product/ 0853451753/ sr=1-1/ qid=1154110737/ ref=pd_bbs_1/ 104-5215943-2287124?ie=UTF8&s=books
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