"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Face it, we've "regulated" ourselves into much of this mess.

Yeah, right. We'd be SO much better off if we'd just instead allowed
ourselves to be "unregulated" into the unmitigated environmental disaster
oil companies (and others, of course) would have created absent those
regulations.

And don't fool yourself -- this oil/gas price situation is a mess that
could ultimately lead to a world-wide economic downturn.

Yup, it sure could. But whatever happens, it will be a minor shadow of what
could have occurred with long-term environmental destruction.

Pete