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To: calex59
See, you're the kind of person who makes conversation difficult. Reread my post and you'll see that I never said anything LIKE what you accuse me of. I said that you can't blame ALL the oil price gouging on enviros. Certainly, ridiculous and extreme regulation costs oil companies, which is passed on to consumers. Certainly, enviro nutbags keep refineries from expanding and prevent construction of nuclear power plants, which keep costs from rising. All of that is true.

But those regulations and restrictions have been in place for the last 20 years, and none of them explain why gasoline prices have doubled at the pump in the last year. The biggest reason energy costs so much now is because oil company thieves can charge what they do. If they could charge more and get away with it, they would. And they would blame it all on the environmentalists because people like you would believe them.

24 posted on 05/02/2005 12:42:41 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: IronJack
If they could charge more and get away with it, they would.

Can you name one commodity sold in the world that does not do that?

25 posted on 05/02/2005 12:55:57 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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