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It bought the oil industry at least eight years of a U.S. "oiligarchy": a government ruled by a small number of oil interests.
t r u t h o u t 2008
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Why is it hot being enslaved to a two party oiligarchy?
Republican senator hears health-care concerns back home 2009
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More likely, it will be an inexorable and ambiguous seepage that has innumerable ruinous effects on the habitat, only some of which will legally be traceable back to the oiligarchy, swirling together with various other incipient atrocities to hasten our societal demise like some oblivious frogs in a planet-sized vat of slowly boiling water.
Randall Amster: Hello, America? This is Your Wakeup Call 2010
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More likely, it will be an inexorable and ambiguous seepage that has innumerable ruinous effects on the habitat, only some of which will legally be traceable back to the oiligarchy, swirling together with various other incipient atrocities to hasten our societal demise like some oblivious frogs in a planet-sized vat of slowly boiling water.
Randall Amster: Hello, America? This is Your Wakeup Call 2010
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Excerpt from Molleindustria's post-mortem on oiligarchy:
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Gradually, they become an oiligarchy that sees moving beyond petrol as irrational: Turning off the spigot would turn off their election funds.
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Gradually, they become an oiligarchy that sees moving beyond petrol as irrational: Turning off the spigot would turn off their election funds.
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Excerpt from Molleindustria's post-mortem on oiligarchy:
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Indeed, the oiligarchy hasn't suffered any significant setbacks since the company's ex-CEO went to Washington and began planning the nation's energy strategy in total secrecy with his friends from Enron and Exxon.
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But the Bush oiligarchy is obstructionist, flatly rejecting the Kyoto Climate Treaty -- after the Clinton administration had sought to weaken it.
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