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To: Alas Babylon!
Go ahead, elect Algore, and then see how much gas will cost you, IF you can find any. Then I remember I have to live in the same world with these bozos. [Emphasis added.]

You wouldn't have to do that, if you lived in Texas or Oklahoma. Intrastate trade isn't subject to federal regulation. It's possible to produce, refine, and sell petroleum products intrastate here.

But I'm definitely ready for some challenges to Congressional mandates on e.g. "clean air". I'll grant their authority to regulate air and water I import from Louisiana, but at some point all this Commerce Clause idiocy that FDR fomented will have to be rolled back, and this business of pushing the States aside for the convenience of this or that political grouping (business, Greens) brought to a halt.

15 posted on 07/11/2006 3:34:38 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: lentulusgracchus

Actually, I'm in Alabama which is conservative enough. Gas currently is $2.75. It was $2.40 at the end of May.

Anyway, some have never learned certain constants such as
there's no such thing as a free lunch and you reap what you sow. The folks who support the Greens and NIMBY just don't think through the economic consequences.


18 posted on 07/11/2006 3:53:38 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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