How much influence does the energy industry have over America?

[billbuckhead]

Poll question: How much influence does the energy industry have over America?

This poll is dedicated to Thomas Freidman

[serryjw]

1. They damn well wrote the Cheney energy policy

n/t

[ThomWV]

2. Reverse The Question and see where it leads you

[Junkdrawer]

3. The Oil Trusts have returned thanks to the Saudi/Big Oil connections....

And I think their reach is even more profound than we suppose...

[upi402]

4. almost absolute, they have to share with banks, etc n/t

[onehandle]

5. As long as there are banks and big pharma...

...oil won't have absolute power.

[The2ndWheel]

6. What isn't made from energy?

Hell, the Constitution would be a damn piece of paper if not for cheap energy. The only reason we don't still have slaves(in this country, in the African sense), is because machines made from, and run by, cheap energy, do the work of 10, 20, 100 people at a time. That technology, while at the same time building toward knowing everything about you, also has given us free time to protest for rights.

If it doesn't have total influence, it's as damn close as you can get.

[Junkdrawer]

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