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...

On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:56:52 -0700, wrote:

You've seen how well the feds have run aviation lately,

Homeland Security.

Mail.

Welfare.

Medicare.

Sometimes it seems that the only thing the government does well is
invading countries, though occupying them seems beyond its capacity
also.

Blue skies! -- Dan Ford

Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942
forthcoming from HarperCollins www.flyingtigersbook.com

"Cubdriver" usenet AT danford DOT net wrote in message
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On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:56:52 -0700, wrote:

You've seen how well the feds have run aviation lately,

Homeland Security.

Mail.

Welfare.

Medicare.

Coe out west and add "water" to that list.


Sometimes it seems that the only thing the government does well is
invading countries, though occupying them seems beyond its capacity
also.

That's their #1 job. They did pretty good in the past before they became
"sensitive".

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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.


Oh, I agree that they'd turn it into a bureaucracy. That's my point; it
would probably STILL be cheaper to consumer because even after all of the
red tape, we'd not be lining the pockets of price-rigging sheiks, tycoons
billionairres.

-c