Thus said James Clawson on Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:37:08 MDT: > I do not wish to start a flame war, but I wonder if people who make > comments like this have read the US Constitution lately.
It seems to me that lately the U.S. Constitution is more of a political playing card that gets used whenever it is convenient. It has become more of a living document than the actual ``law of the land.'' > No one in the Federal Government or the governments of the respective > states has the responsibility or the AUTHORITY to control the price > of gasoline or of any other consumer product, or to impose MPG > restrictions on automobiles. If only we lived in a truly free market, this wouldn't sound like economic theory... How about we start by eliminating the rediculously high gasoline tax? > The high cost of gasoline can only be addressed by building more > refineries and by drilling for oil within the US. Agreed. When can we start in Alaska? Andy -- GnuPG ID 0xA63888C9 (D2DA 68C9 BB2B 26B4 8204 2219 A43E F450 A638 88C9) [-----------[system uptime]--------------------------------------------] 3:06pm up 71 days, 23:44, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 .-----------------------------------. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `-----------------------------------'
