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doesn't mean US prices aren't outrageous and we should be overjoyed. It's like telling people they should appreciate their dogshit sandwich because they dont have to eat a cowshit sandwich.....how about we stop accepting the premise that we have to eat shit sandwiches to begin with? Taxes make up a significantly large chunk of the gas price, and despite what lefties tell you, corporations don't pay taxes, people do, more specifically, consumers. So when you hear the demagoguery start over "big mean ole greedy oil companies", hold on to your wallet because ultimately you will foot the bill. Government needs to get the hell out of business, period dot. The more it meddles, the bigger a mess it creates. They'll drive prices up, through confiscatory taxes, fruitless regulation, and methods that amount to little more than skimming off the top, impeding the natural market in each and every step of production all the way to delivery to the consumer, AND THEN when the people cant afford it anymore and really do start switching to gas-sipping econoboxes, they'll just charge you by the mile you drive instead to make up for it because they are bankrolling every goddamn thing under the sun that they have no legitimate business in fooling with. This is the problem in the US and Europe. The welfare state is too goddam expensive, inherently doomed to fail, and the only way to finance it is by collecting taxes on things the folks cant avoid using. I would suspect the problem with fuel prices for Aussies are likely similar in nature.
 "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."
--Winston Churchill END THE FED
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