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To: tcrlaf

Britain, an island practically made out of coal, transitioned to socialism. I a short time, they were importing coal.


3 posted on 01/09/2019 8:14:38 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: Gen.Blather

Lots of shale in Wales too.

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4 posted on 01/09/2019 8:16:26 AM PST by Mears (Veep)
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To: Gen.Blather

“Britain, an island practically made out of coal, transitioned to socialism. I a short time, they were importing coal.”

Someone has suggested that if Saudi Arabia turned to Socialism, it wouldn’t take very long for them to run out of sand.


6 posted on 01/09/2019 8:29:06 AM PST by vette6387
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To: Gen.Blather

“Britain, an island practically made out of coal, transitioned to socialism. I a short time, they were importing coal.”


Maggie Thatcher famously noted that only Socialism could take an island made mostly of coal, and produce shortages of both coal and fish.


17 posted on 01/09/2019 10:12:46 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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