8.01.2012

Gem of the day

More proof - as if we needed any - that the dirty, inefficient tools of the old system (energy and finance, for starters) are driven by elitism and inequality (via Jeremy Leggett):

"George Osborne was facing fresh questions yesterday over his controversial push to make Britain a worldwide hub for fossil fuels, after it emerged that his father-in-law is the head of a lobbying organisation for big oil and gas companies. Lord Howell of Guildford, who is an energy minister at the Foreign Office, is also the president of the British Institute of Energy Economics (BIEE), which is sponsored by Shell and BP – prompting suggestions of a conflict of interest."

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