Gas Prices -- Help at last?

"Matt Barrow" wrote:

... I tend to lose it when people make foolish caveats especially
ones that are logical fallacies such as "without all this regulation
we'd be in (insert Armageddon class crisis)".

...or "without all this regulation we'd be in (insert free market
Utopia)."

Gee!! I've been a student of free markets (Chicago, Austrian, Hoover
under Sowell, Georgetown under Williams) for 25 years and I don't
recall any of them making anything even remotely similar to that
claim. If anything, it claims the opposite and refers to it as
"chaotic" and a great struggle to stay competitive.

As I'm sure you know, I'm not speaking of serious free market thinkers,
but rather the simplistic knee jerks who imagine that we'd have plenty
of cheap gasoline with no downside consequences if we simply eliminated
environmental protection regulations. My point was that such
black/white thinking is common on both sides of the environmental
protection issue.

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM