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"Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion."
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"I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years."
"Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be charging very high prices, but that they will be uncompetitive with renewables."
"There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers."
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"There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that."
"Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies."
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"And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit."
"What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war, and when we won, that's what we did."
"And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale."
"He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit."
"If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s."
"There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief."
"And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow."
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