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Re: UK Petrol tax revolt

 We expected networks to deliver more protests against global
capitalism, of the sort that have just taken place in Melbourne -
Congratulations!

But there are special reasons why networks have produced the cascade
of positive feedback leading to the petrol tax revolt in Britain.

The petrol blockade in Britain has developed as suddenly as the
national mourning over Diana, promoted by 24 hour news services. It
has also been lubricated by the new networking possiblilities of
e-mail, fax, mobile phones. It has a contagious sense of populist
power against the powers that be. Blair is now on the wrong side of
that public perception...


Let me second Chris Burford: the reduction of taxes on oil is not a
step forward in the direction of utopia...


Brad DeLong


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