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Crimes Against Nature, How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy by Robert F. Kennedy, HarperCollins Publishers, 2004

Excerpt is from chapter 6, "Blueprint for Plunder", p. 99

The report of the National Energy Policy Development Group, which became the basis for the Republican sponsored energy bill.

The report was an orgy of industry plunder, transferring billions of dollars of public wealth to the oil, coal and nuclear industries which were already swimming in record revenues. Paying lip service to conservation and environmental concerns, the report focused almost exclusively on deregulation, giant subsidies, and tax breaks that would benefit virtually every major polluter in the energy industry.

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