shempmcgurk wrote: > --- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >> In a message dated 10/22/06 2:30:37 P.M. Central Daylight Time, >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >> I think he's stating the obvious that the use of oil -- which I, >> > you > >> and he and everyone else on this forum consumes in abundance -- >> > has > >> enabled alot of positive things. >> >> Speaking for myself, if a cleaner and more efficient alternative >> > is > >> available I will abandon my patronage of the Mobil Station down >> > the > >> block and give my greenbacks to the new guy in town. >> >> I have zero loyalty to the oil companies above and beyond their >> ability to provide me with the gasoline I need to power my Toyota >> Corolla (which gets me 31 miles to the gallon, city and highway >> combined). >> >> >> >> Bingo Shemp! >> >> > > Unlike general elections where one only gets to show, through the > ballot box, one's approval for an elected representative every 4 > years (or whatever), I get to vote with my dollars every day whether > the supplier of my groceries, energy and services are giving me > value. If they don't, I stop voting for them. > > That's why the truest democracy is the free market. Free market economies don't seem to work very well though. It's sort of a "Victorian Age" thinking.
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