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Thread #25280   Message #297345
Posted By: kendall
14-Sep-00 - 03:12 PM
Thread Name: BS: Fuel crisis
Subject: RE: BS: Fuel crisis
They already had one Doug! Lets hear it for the Roundheads!! No, I'm not suggesting dumping oil, but, if the whole country could stop buying petrol for one day it would send a message. It worked here with sugar when the price went out of sight. According to the history I was taught, the Boston tea party came about because King George 3rd had levied a tax on it. And the colonists refused to pay it. In all fairness to poor George, all he wanted was some financial help in paying for the soldiers who were sent here to protect the colonists from the indians. As I recall, England was at war with France, Spain and Holland. As we have learned in later years, enemies are expensive.