Sunday, December 18, 2005

Boston Tea Party: Environmental disaster

I was reading Steveegg's comparison of ethanol with the events that led up to the Boston Tea Party, and I realized that if the Boston Tea Party took place today, the Revolution would fail. Why? The revolutionaries would have been fined an exorbitant sum for intentionally dumping tea into a body of water, and the leaders jailed on conspiracy charges.

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