[unspun]

No, if you mandate people based on what you call “morality” as it appears to you on gasoline prices and availablity, then you can dang well expect the same from others with the opposite take on what is “morality” on issues you/we find important.

That is like saying, "If you accept tax money for defense, you better dang well expect people will take tax money to pay for abortions."

[ConservativeMind]

Hey, “Unhinged,” you are apparently incapable of answering the questions I’ve posed to you:

1. How is government not impinging on the above when enforcing anti-gouging laws? Whose “liberty” and “Happiness” should be punished to make you happy between the gas station owner who needs to buy expensive gas and the consumer who wants it cheap?

2. You say:

“Government is there to keep powerful interests from being tyrannical. “

Then you say:

“Price gouging profiteering in vital commodities (and the inherent trust that brings it, even if unstated) is tyrannical.”

Where on earth do you get that definition of government or that idea on “price gouging”? How can you have tyrannical control of commodities, unless you are a government?

Are you incapable of answering simple questions of logic?