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To: thames_sider who wrote (12570)	5/9/2002 10:46:23 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 21057

not even 1% of French electricity generation capacity can be owned/traded by foreign companies... The French have at least the smarts to provide for their future and Britain will be buying inflated energy products from them for the next 100 years thanks to this incredible discovery. cri.ca sem.gov.sk.ca

To: thames_sider who wrote (12570)	5/23/2002 7:34:51 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 21057

As for agriculture... the UK would love a free, unsubsidised market. Preferably soon enough that we'll have some free-market, unsubsidised farms left to compete against the US or EU variants. As for the Aussies, or Kiwis, or Canucks... I suspect they'd leap at even the chance of a free market... These countries being democracies, I suspect there must interests that don't want free markets in these areas. Who are they? The same things you said can be said of Japan. Their political system is controlled by rural areas. They dominate the Diet even though they have far less population than the cities. And they protect they farmers against more efficient foreign competition. Currently, about 70% of each is owned by foreign owners - principally French and German companies. Strangely, although each market is 'deregulated', not even 1% of French electricity generation capacity can be owned/traded by foreign companies. That's fixable. You need a law that says if they have a law like that, the same rules apply to them in your country.