$3.00 Gas getting to You?

[Bob Lanier]

It is really not governments job to supply the market with
fuel.

Actually that is the fundamental responsibility of any government.

And Dubai is a great city.

[johnsmith]

Actually that is the fundamental responsibility of any government.

And Dubai is a great city.

So when our fore fathers wrote the cons ution they decided that it's the "fundamental responsibility" of our government to supply us with fuel?


Ok, bad example, they didn't have vehicles back then.

So in the early 20th century when cars were invented, the President at the time pushed a new amendment to the cons ution through congress that made it a "fundamental responsibility" for the government to supply us with fuel and regulate said fuel as well?

Ok, bad example, we all know that fuel wasn't near an issue back then as it is now.

So, when exactly did it become a fundamental responsiblity of government to supply fuel?

I only ask because I'm starting to think it was actually determined to be a fundamental responsibility at around 8:57 PM on April 12th, by a man name "boblanier" who posts on spurstalk.com.

[Bob Lanier]

Governments that can't provide for reliable distribution of energy – i.e., a working economic system – tend not to last very long, no matter what their charters have to say.

[xrayzebra]

Bob, governments do not provide a distribution of energy.
Business does. Well maybe in Mexico where the industry has
been confiscated by the government.

Government can provide the atmosphere where it makes it
easier for business to do so, but thank God they stay out of
energy distribution here. As a matter of fact they hinder
distribution by their dumb rules on formulations of gasoline.
One of the reason we have periodic shortages.

[smeagol]

Stop crying. Gas in Europe is much more expensive.

[Phil Hellmuth]

Stop crying. Gas in Europe is much more expensive.

its mostly tax and plus 40% of europe use diesel cars.

[smeagol]

its mostly tax and plus 40% of europe use diesel cars.

So?

Joe "European" Blow still pays much more for gas than Joe "American" Blow