[Amendment10]

You don’t think the people who buy and sell should have the freedom to hold on to something until the price rises?

Thank you for the question, but you're reading too much into my earlier statement.

Since people don't eat gold for example, I wouldn't mind being one of the middle-men who sells gold to Glenn Beck.

But when the commodity is something like gas that many people have to use on a daily basis to get to work, then why make things more difficult for such people by making their gas more expensive?

[GeronL]

do you think supply and demand should be outlawed?

[Boogieman]

“But when the commodity is something like gas that many people have to use on a daily basis to get to work, then why make things more difficult for such people by making their gas more expensive?”

The goal is not to make anything more expensive, it is to make a profit. Without the profit motive, nobody would bother pulling oil out of the ground, refining it, and selling it. Then where would all the people trying to get to work ever day be?

[itsahoot]

then why make things more difficult for such people by making their gas more expensive?

"Carbon Tax"