The claim of the post is that the government contr...

2008-06-10T23:07:01.747-06:00

The claim of the post is that the government controlled energy sector is systematically strangling the market.

Governments control access to supply, and they seem to be into a game where they flood the market to thin out competition, then tighten the market to ream it to consumers.

Taking the profits from the energy sector in boom times is part of the strangling process.

As for the question of oil profits. The oil industry is limited by supply. I would like to see the oil companies paying these profits to investors as dividends. The investors would invest the money in alternative energy.

So your claim is that alternative energy hasn't be...

2008-06-10T22:34:28.443-06:00

So your claim is that alternative energy hasn't been thoroughly developed because the oil companies "just don't have the money", right?

Heh. Right.

The real long term goal is getting off of our dependence on petroleum entirely, not band-aiding the issue by drilling in one of the last natural habitats protected in Alaska.

We've got to have bigger vision than this, it's what America has always been about.

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