Argument against high gas prices

On Jun 5, 3:49 pm, "gatt" wrote:
I'm not being
a big-government socialist when I say that the federal bureaucracy could run
the oil industry at lower user cost. (Not necessarily more efficiently,
but in ways that are less damaging to the US economy, transportation
industries, etc.)

-c

JEEEEEEEPPPPPERS!!!
Don't EVER say that out loud!
You've seen how well the feds have run aviation lately, and then say
that they might run oil companies at a lower cost???
What's in your water? (OK, insert half a smiley here....)
We know how thick the paperwork and regs books are just to fly a
little ol' plane from point A to point B. I can't imaigine how bad
the oil business would be if the job-justifying feds started running
it.
jeez...