Reply #13: "Are they holding a gun to your head ..."

[pnorman]

THAT is specious! For gas, think "water to drink" (already under privatization/cartelization attack). Or AIR TO BREATHE, fercrissakes! We're living in a world molded largely by Big Oil (and other investors in BushCo). Efficient transportation systems, efficient engines, "Clean" extraction, alternative energy sources, etc etc --- were allowed or barred --- only at the behest of the same good people who funded that so-called Tax outfit. Had they been allowed, we might have had more several centuries "breathing space" to work on the problem. Instead, were not too far from "Peak Oil", and things are becoming highly non-linear. Think CHAOS.

pnorman