Re: Re: Oil & Socialism

["J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <rosserjb@xxxxxxx>]

     To say that capitalism is based on fossil
fuels would be to argue that there was no
capitalism prior to the coal-based industrial
revolution in the 1700s in Great Britain.  That
can be argued, but most on this list would
probably not agree.
Barkley Rosser
-----Original Message-----
From: martin schiller <martin_schiller@xxxxxxx>
To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, November 16, 2000 7:58 PM
>Subject: [PEN-L:4516] Re: Oil & Socialism


>Jim Devine said on 11/16/00 3:31 P
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>>I guess I don't accept the premise that fossil fuels define capitalism. Do
>>you? does anyone?
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>That's what I thought that this thread was based on.
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