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Old 07-24-2006, 03:56 PM
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Default Re: Has the US gone communist yet? It\'s hard to tell.

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Then you know that your "lifetime of the CEO" comment, which you use in part to justify energy companies not being interested in raising the cost of entry to their competitors in alternative energy, is horsemanure. Unless you work in pharma as a janitor that is.

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No I don't think it is. I think a lot of the CEO's will be dead before this topic starts to effectively enter the courts through litigation. I think we will see a repeat of what happened to Phillip Morris. They pay billions in lawsuits now.

Philip Morris loses $28B suit
http://money.cnn.com/2002/10/04/news.../philipmorris/

At the same time they still pump out bogus research that downplays cancer risks. The energy industry is behaving in the exact same manner using the exact same tactics.
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