[DTogo]

If it became the law that houses could only be sold through a cabal of 5 or so big real estate firms - REMAX, Century 21, etc - is that a free market??

So can we little people go out in our back yards and establish distilleries to make and sell gasoline, and perhaps alcohol, to anyone we want?

Can we go make our own guns and freely sell them, too?

[Rodney King]

If it became the law that houses could only be sold through a cabal of 5 or so big real estate firms - REMAX, Century 21, etc - is that a free market??

Which is the cabal of 5 oil comapnies? The retail gasoline market is well diversified under any and every standard that is sued to measure market concentration.

The problem with debates about oil and gas is that 95% of people know nothing about the industry, yet feel no reason offering their opinions on it.