Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!lll-winken!looking!funny-request From: friedl@mtndew.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny Subject: Less power to the people! Keywords: laugh Message-ID: Date: 1 Jun 90 10:30:06 GMT Lines: 16 Approved: funny@looking.on.ca >From _Access to Energy_, June 1990 (without permission, but excerpted only): The Competitive Institute (Washington D.C.) announced an energy conservation award to M. Gorbachev and delivered it to the Soviet Embassy on May 1. "In recent weeks Mikhail Gorbachev has reduced Lithuanian oil and gas consumption by over 80%," stated CEI president Fred Smith. "These unprecedented strides in energy conservation, accomplished in what by Western standards is an incredibly short time, demonstrate the importance of looking beyond our borders for new ideas on how to save energy..." -- Edited by Brad Templeton. MAIL your jokes (jokes ONLY) to funny@looking.ON.CA Attribute the joke's source if at all possible. A Daemon will auto-reply. Jokes posted instead of mailed often don't have a valid reply address.