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This was completed as an editorial piece for an environmentalist quarterly magazine. They were looking for a piece that convey the influence special interest lobbyists have in Washington. The approach I took was influenced by the economist Milton Friedman who believed that government interference in the free market almost always contributes to the fruition of monopolies.