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Posted by rexim on June 27, 2007 at 1:13:59 pm EDT
In reply to E-85 posted by Blackbeard on June 13, 2007 at 6:21:32 am EDT

Bill: I disagree that I have cause and effect turned around. My point was that if we did not have the road system we have, we would not have the demand for gasoline that we have nor the market that we have and the oil companies would not have the means of transporting their product to market. Of course the increased use of automobiles created demand for more roads; however, the construction of those roads increased the ability to travel which in turn increased the demand for gasoline which in turn increased the amount of travel which in turn increased the demand for gas which in turn increased travel which in turn increaseed road construction which allowed us to move from the cities to the suburbs which in turn created even higher demand for gas, and on and on. I don't think that can reasonably be denied, and I stand by that statement.

I was not trying to engage in a chicken vs. egg dialogue, but simply trying to counter the simplistic argument that the government does nothing to produce oil or gas. In doing so, I was guilty of oversimplification, and you rightly called me out.

However, I don't think you can deny my main point, which is that it's easy to blame the government for every evil in society, but it's neither productive nor true. By the same token, it's equally easy, and equally counter-productive, to blame corporate greed for every perceived evil in the world.

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