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Originally Posted by Jim Dunlop
Why should the state control prices in a free market? It almost always leads to long-term problems. If you don't like the price of gas, you can a) use less or b) explore, drill, and refine your own oil.
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That would be all well and good and encouraged, except for one little fact. It's not a free market. B is not an option. You aren't allowed to drill anywhere, you aren't allowed to make a new refinery. So no matter how lucrative a business it would be to get into oil and start up some competition... You cannot. By being "environmentalist" the goverment is maintaining the oligopoly of the oil companies.
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