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Posted by lambertiana on June 27, 2007 at 12:46:29 am EDT
In reply to Re: E-85 posted by MTB416 on June 26, 2007 at 11:43:30 pm EDT

I completely agree with Chumango (yeah, in the spirit of full disclosure, he is my twin brother). I do not work for the oil industry in any way, I am on the other side of things working in the waste treatment, disposal, and recycling industry.

In the end, the thing we should all consider is how much of a socialist state we want. Show me the article in the constitution (federal or any state) that gives the government the power to dictate price. And don't give me the line about monopolies. If there were even a hint of evidence of illegal activity under the various anti-monopoly legislation, don't you think that some politicians would have already exploited it for their own gain?

The bottom line is that we are voracious consumers of oil-derived products, and no one is forcing us to make a single purchase. We are going down that path quite willingly. I'll never forget the time a couple years ago when I was at the gas station, and the woman across from me pumping gas into a monstrous SUV was complaining that Bush wasn't doing anything about gas prices. I asked her just what he could do, given the legal limitations of his power. If she was really serious about the cost of gasoline, why was she driving a gas guzzler? For a while last year when gas prices shot up, the sales of large vehicles slowed down, but as we have gotten accustomed to the higher prices those sales are on the upswing. It seems that size and horsepower trump fuel efficiency for far too many people. Will we never learn?

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