RE: More immediate threat: $2.10/gal gasoline

[John Steck]

Bet that outrage doesn't stop you from driving... you patronize the system every time you fill up.  The talk is easy, the walk is a whole lot harder.  8^)

 

  -j

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 1:05 PM
To: vortex-L@eskimo.com
Subject: Re: More immediate threat: $2.10/gal gasoline

Michael Foster wrote:

Now let's review. The evil Big Oil Petrocracy has given us gasoline
prices of $2 or so a gallon.  On the other hand the, Enlightened
Socialist Paradises of Europe have delivered near $6 per gallon
gasoline.  Hmmm.....

I do not think much of socialism but that is a mis-characterization. The big evil oil petrocracy in the US has given us gasoline prices of $5 dollars a gallon: $2 paid by the customer and $3 stolen from the taxpayers, or paid for in blood by our soldiers. We pay as much as anyone but the cost is hidden by our tax system, by hidden subsidies and depletion allowances, lax pollution standards, and by forcing the public to pay for rich people's SUVs. If anything, the U.S. system is far too socialistic. Or you might say it combines the worst features of capitalism and communism.

- Jed