[Arne Poulsen]

Just registret. I have read your site for years and bought your DVD’s, though. Fantastic stuff! Thanks a lot. Here in Denmark there isn’t much debate about the big three: Finance, AGW and Peak Oil, OR the importance of trust in a society, OR fracking … or anything of imprtance, really (except in a small newspaper on the left), so TAE fills a lot of holes over here.
There is ONE question, though, our national energy supply, which is now vigerously debated. Our state-owned energy-company, DONG, is about to sell 19 % of it’s shares to Goldman Sachs AND give them VETO over all impotant decisions, a fantastic deal for GS! Why; we ask ourselves over here, why sell out, why to GS, and why don’t the government take out a cheap loan and put the money in DONG, so our gas and oil remain in our hands? AND the more that are found out, the deal looks dodgy’er and dudgy’er … Danish troubled banks are involved, tax-havens are involved, there’s much hush-hush, and we are told again and again: GS is the only serious option. After the sale, DONG-shares will be sold on the exchange, making the board of directors a total of one billion kr. richer.
We haven’t got anything like your analysis’ over here, so please, when you (hopefully) sometime again write about energy in Europe, could you please, pleaaaase, comment on this sell-out, or maybe just about sell-outs LIKE this?
PS: Our neo-liberal government isn’t actually that, it’s a coalition between a social democratic party, Socialdemokraterne, a left wing party, Socialistisk Folkeparti and a conservate/liberal party, De Radikale. They all do the exact opposite of what they promised before the election. They did a Obama, and MANY are furious. It looks like perhaps this could be a turning point in our debate. Our Finance-minister is so unpopular, that few dares support him even at the far right, and we DO have far right in this country.
Thanks, Arne.

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