[Vwdiesel] Gas/Diesel Prices

[Patrick Dolan]

I think the whole point is that dropping the price of diesel (or gasoline) is what ENCOURCAGES WASTE.  That is the difference bwtween Liberalism and reality.  In the world of the Politically Correct Looney Left, there are nothing but half-baked flashes of insanity - rather than well reasoned policy.  The world of actual free markets (that doesn't actually exist anywhere, but there are little bits of it around) dictates that causes and effects are reflected in the actual price ("fair market value"?), resulting in appropriate behaviour from all participants.  In the case of fuel, increasing price = increasing conservation and making alternatives practical (driven by real market forces rather that incredible stupidity of burearcrats and politicians).


----- Original Message -----
From: "S. Shourds" <sshourds at flash.net>
Date: Thursday, May 29, 2008 10:53 pm
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Gas/Diesel Prices

> Dave Cook wrote:
> > Just one more example of something that our government doesn't 
> do well.  To those who want to nationalize more and more parts of 
> our daily life, I challenge you to name something, anything, that 
> the government does well without wasting money.  To win, they have 
> to do it better than private enterprises.  
> >
> >   
> 
> As someone working in a semi-governmental environmental concern, I 
> think 
> the sad truth is that we need them both involved--government and 
> private 
> industry.  Industry has the initiative, government has the broad-
> based 
> accountability.  Makes a heck of a mess but to paraphrase 
> Churchill, 
> it's the worst possible situation with the exception of every 
> other 
> possible one.    
> 
> 
> I wouldn't, for example, mind if the US gov't wanted to encourage 
> more 
> efficient vehicles and dropped the priced of Diesel :)
> 
> 
> 
> -Shalyn, the token big-government liberal :)
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