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Date:         Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:49:36 -0600
Reply-To:     Gnarlodious <gnarlodious@EARTHLINK.NET>
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From:         Gnarlodious <gnarlodious@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      Re: Diesel Fuel vs. Gasoline
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Entity Aaron Pearson spoke thus:

> of course profit drives the oil industry, it drives every industry in a > capitalist economy. there's no reason a company should charge any less > for its product than the maximum consumers are willing to spend.

But what we are seeing now is the result of unrestrained consolidation, which at one time would have been prohibited under the Sherman Antitrust Act.

Add this monopoly to the intentional sabotage of alternative fuel programs and it looks like we didn't learn the lesson of 1973. Those who are too young to remember can read or listen to Jimmy Carter's speech: http://americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jimmycartercrisisofconfidence.htm

Of course, Ronald Reagan's (elected on Big Oil cash I might add) first official act as President was to remove the solar panels Jimmy Carter had put on top of the White House.

I have heard those Libertarian (AKA Corporatist) talk radio wingnuts blame this on government overregulation, but it just ignores history. Their statements simply underscore their ultimate agenda of eliminating Government in all forms and handing our economy over to Corporations.

The bottom line IMHO? It's virtually impossible to pricefix when the raw material is coming from corn and soybean farmers, windmill and solar farms and cottage industry refiners.

-- Gnarlie


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